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Review of Kim, Martin, Shin & Choi (2023): Korean grammar: A systemic functional approach Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Meizi Li
This article reviews Korean grammar: A systemic functional approach 978-1-316-51534-1
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Review of Kiaer (2023): Multimodal communication in young multilingual children: Learning beyond words Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Pan Pan, Hongqiang Zhu
This article reviews Multimodal communication in young multilingual children: Learning beyond words 9781800413337
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Review of Dove (2022): Abstract concepts and the embodied mind: Rethinking grounded cognition Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Jiayin Li
This article reviews concepts and the embodied mind: Rethinking grounded cognition 9780190061975
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Cardinal direction judgment based on the integration of spatial reference frames in different languages Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Qinghong Xu, Ru Ya, Ermiao Zhang, Jie Li, Ruhan Ah, Min Li
This study investigates how integrated egocentric and environmental reference frames influence direction determination and cardinal direction judgments in L1 speakers of Mongolian and Mandarin. The results show that in direction determination, Mandarin participants’ integrated frame of reference is “front-north, back-south, left-west, and right-east.” By contrast, Mongolian participants use two modes
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Definite-like meaning of bare classifiers in Nung Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Esther Lam
Nung (Tai, Kra-Dai) is a numeral-classifier language that contains the Classifier-Noun (cl-n, or ‘bare classifier’) construction. Drawing on Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 1987, 2004, 2008, 2017) (CG), I argue that the use of a Nung cl-n phrase is only possible when it refers to a unique instance in the current discourse frame of the current discourse space. This explains why cl-n phrases
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On the L1-acquisition of the pragmatics of discourse like Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Martin Schweinberger
This study analyzes the L1-acquisition of discourse like and its pragmatic functions in American English based on the Home-School Study of Language and Literacy Development component of the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES). The data show that discourse like is already present in the speech of 3- and 4-year-old children and that even very young children employ like to perform distinct pragmatic
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Review of Yang (2022): Non-finiteness: A process-relation perspective Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Akila Sellami Baklouti
This article reviews Non-finiteness: A process-relation perspective 9781316513415
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Review of Huang (2022): Toward multimodal pragmatics: A Study of illocutionary force in Chinese situated discourse Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Yanhua Cheng
This article reviews Toward multimodal pragmatics: A Study of illocutionary force in Chinese situated discourse 9781003251774
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Review of Ngo, Hood, Martin, Painter, Smith & Zappavigna (2022): Modelling paralanguage using systemic functional semiotics: Theory and application Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Zhigang Yu
This article reviews Modelling paralanguage using systemic functional semiotics: Theory and application 9781350074910
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The function of extra negation Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Egbert Fortuin
This paper provides insight into the phenomenon of extra negation, also known as non-compositional, expletive, or pleonastic negation. It provides a corpus-based analysis of the Dutch negative privative construction, which consists of zonder ‘without’ and niet ‘not’, in which one negation does not cancel the other. Two basic factors that trigger an extra negation are discussed, and an explanation of
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Seeing and knowing Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Henrik Bergqvist
The paper provides evidence against the claim that perceptual access is commonly encoded in direct evidentials. While visual, auditory, tactile and olfactory perception are conveyed by direct evidentials in contexts where such interpretations are appropriate, in others it is the speaker’s involvement, affectedness and established beliefs which are conveyed. These may be exclusive to the speaker or
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The genre specifics of English wh-exclamatives Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Daniela Schröder
This paper puts forward the hypothesis that wh-exclamatives in Present-day English are much more genre-specific than has previously been acknowledged. To test this, prototypical how- and what-exclamatives are searched for in three different corpora containing material from conceptually oral language, that is prose fiction, personal letters and informal, spontaneous face-to-face conversations. The results
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Do ‘say’ verbs really grammaticalize into complementizers through clause combination? Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Haiping Long, Chuanlin Deng
When a ‘say’ clause is combined with a quoted-speech clause, one of two hypothetical pathways may be followed: (a) a complementation pathway on which the ‘say’ clause takes the quoted-speech clause as its complement clause and thus becomes its matrix clause; (b) a conjoining pathway which involves no syntactic operation but rather the loss of a prosodic gap between the two. Following the second pathway
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Adjustment, mismatches and accommodation of procedural and conceptual meaning Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Inés Recio Fernández, Óscar Loureda, Adriana Cruz
This contribution aims to set out the effects of discourse marking on processing. On the basis of examples from Spanish, we try to show the principles governing the interplay between the procedural meaning of discourse markers (connectives) and the conceptual meaning of the discourse segments linked by them. To determine these principles, two types of experiments were performed: one comparing marked
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Contrast marking variation in Romance and Germanic languages Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Cecilia Andorno, Sandra Benazzo, Christine Dimroth
In research on information structure and discourse cohesion, contrast has been defined in different ways, depending on the pragmatic/semantic relation established between the propositions involved in the contrast, on the text types and on other discourse conditions. As a whole, despite – or possibly because of – its vagueness, contrast has proved to be a useful heuristic tool for characterizing discourse
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Explicitness and implicitness of discourse relations in a multilingual discourse bank Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Amália Mendes, Deniz Zeyrek, Giedrė Oles̆kevic̆ienė
Proposals such as continuity and causality-by-default relate the level of expectedness of a relation to its linguistic marking as an explicit or implicit relation. We investigate these two proposals with regard to the English transcripts of six TED Talks and their Lithuanian, Portuguese and Turkish translations in the TED-Multilingual Discourse Bank (TED-MDB), annotated for discourse relations, following
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Continuity in discourse relations Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Debopam Das, Markus Egg
Continuity and discontinuity (maintaining or shifting deictic centres across segments) are important aspects of discourse relations. Yet they have been attributed to these relations in very different ways. This calls for an analysis of individual instances of discourse relations with respect to their continuity dimensions. To this end, we operationalise Givón’s (1993) continuity dimensions (time, space
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The linguistic realization of continuative discourse relations in English discourse Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Anita Fetzer, Matthias Klumm
This paper examines the linguistic realization of continuative discourse relations in British English written discourse comparing narrative and argumentative dyadically edited texts. The data comprise 18 co-edited texts and metadata documenting the editing process (keystroke logs and transcripts of the dyads negotiating discursive well-formedness). The focus of analysis lies on the linguistic realization
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Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Matthias Klumm, Anita Fetzer, Evelien Keizer
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Editorial announcement Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Martin Hilpert, J. Lachlan Mackenzie
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Review of Martin, Maton & Doran (2020): Accessing academic discourse: Systemic Functional Linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Hui Zou, Chenguang Chang
This article reviews Accessing academic discourse: Systemic Functional Linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory 97803672360769780429280726
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Review of Maagerø, Mulvad & Tønnessen (2022): Women in social semiotics and SFL: Making a difference Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Rebekah Wegener
This article reviews Women in social semiotics and SFL: Making a difference 978-0-367-35602-6
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Review of Traugott (2022): Discourse structuring markers in English: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Bernd Heine, Haiping Long
This article reviews Discourse structuring markers in English: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics 97890272109139789027257925
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Review of Verschueren (2022): Complicity in discourse and practice Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Bob Hodge
This article reviews Complicity in discourse and practice 9781032072876
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Self-denigration in academic discourse Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Nadia Mayahi, Alireza Jalilifar
Using the methodology of Grounded Theory, this study aims to identify and analyze the perceptions and functions of self-denigration in dissertation defenses. The data comprises transcripts of two focus group discussions and the disputation sections of a corpus of 53 applied linguistics doctoral defense sessions gathered from 14 Iranian state universities between 2019 and 2021. The findings suggest
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Effects of verb and construction frequency in sentence comprehension Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Hyunwoo Kim, Gyu-Ho Shin
Two theoretical viewpoints provide different explanations about how people extract statistical regularities from input to assess the felicity of verb usage in a sentence. The lexical approach emphasizes the role of verb frequency in determining a verb’s distributional bias within a sentence, whereas the entrenchment hypothesis highlights the conjoined roles of the frequency information from both a
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Exchange Structure: Refinements to the model through a study of multiparty discourse of 4 to 5 year-old children Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Margaret Berry, Sarah Jane Mukherjee
This paper proposes a number of refinements to the original theory of Exchange Structure as first conceived. It first offers a summary of the early ideas and considers challenges made by others. The study responds to these challenges through new analysis of multiparty discourse. The paper discusses revisions to the model based on these challenges drawing on the iterative analysis conducted and considers
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Review of Forceville (2020): Visual and multimodal communication: Applying the relevance principle Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Agnieszka Piskorska
This article reviews Visual and multimodal communication: Applying the relevance principle 97801908452549780190845261
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Review of Zhang & Qian (2019): Prosodic studies: Challenges and prospects Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Chen Ou, Kaijing Zhao
This article reviews Prosodic studies: Challenges and prospects 978 0 8153 8058 0978 1 351 21287 8
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From dynamic modal to conditional protasis connective Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Yueh Hsin Kuo
The grammaticalization literature has not demonstrated convincingly how, if at all, dynamic modals may develop into conditional protasis connectives. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative evidence from Chinese, this paper hypothesizes that such a directionality may arise through univerbation between dynamic modals and protasis connectives (e.g. ruò ‘if’ + néng ‘be able to’ > ruònéng ‘if’). Furthermore
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Redefining attitude for studying explicit and indirect evaluations of human behaviour Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Sara Vilar Lluch
This article considers the application of the Attitude framework (Martin & White 2005) to study the evaluation of human behaviour. The distinction between inscribed (explicit) and invoked (indirect) attitude is re-examined and systematised to better operationalise the analysis of the evaluation of behaviour. General linguistic evaluation triggers are identified for inscribed and invoked evaluations
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Diachronic changes of least delicate appraisal in parliamentary and congressional language Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Bandar Alhumaidi A. Almutairi
This study investigates least delicate patterns of appraisal in two diachronic corpora of UK Parliament and U.S. Congress speeches over the last two centuries, focusing on diachronic changes and trends of systemic probabilities of least delicate engagement and attitude polarity. Based on computational algorithms that automatically extract appraisal instances and intersections from the two corpora,
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Review of Gussenhoven & Chen (2020): The Oxford handbook of language prosody Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Gerard O’Grady
This article reviews The Oxford handbook of language prosody 9780198832232
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Review of Caple, Huan & Bednarek (2020): Multimodal news analysis across cultures Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Peipei Jia
This article reviews Multimodal news analysis across cultures 978 1 108 81407 2
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Review of Heine, Kaltenböck, Kuteva & Long (2021): The rise of discourse markers Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Karin Aijmer
This article reviews The rise of discourse markers 978-1-108-83385-1
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Alternatives to QUD Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Pavel Ozerov
The paper critically examines some central principles of the Question Under Discussion (QUD) framework and ultimately explores the concept of ‘question’, central to QUD-models. It demonstrates how fine-grained, interactionally informed analyses of language-specific categories can reveal building blocks of interaction and explain the sources of the observed information- and discourse-structuring interpretations
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Modeling the discourse pragmatics of interrogatives Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Malte Rosemeyer
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How sentence type influences the interpretation of Spanish future constructions Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Malte Rosemeyer, María Sol Sansiñena
It is well known that Spanish futurizing morphology is frequently used not to express futurity, but instead to formulate a hypothesis, i.e. express epistemic modality. Although this is possible with both synthetic or periphrastic future marking, the synthetic future tense is more likely to express an epistemic reading than the periphrastic future. This paper explores the relationship between futurizing
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A contrastive perspective on French and Italian wh-in situ questions Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Davide Garassino
This paper offers a qualitative and quantitative analysis of French and Italian wh-in situ questions based on spontaneous spoken data. A pragmatic analysis relying on two parameters, propositional activation and pragmatic functions, reveals that the licensing conditions and the use of this structure largely differ in the two languages. While French wh-in situ do not require an activated proposition
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On the discourse pragmatics of German wh-headlines Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Rita Finkbeiner, Robert Külpmann
This paper deals with autonomous uses of German subordinate wh-interrogatives as headlines, so-called wh-headlines (e.g. Was Kinder brauchen, ‘What children need’), which we approach from a discourse-pragmatic and diachronic perspective. We take our starting point in the QUD-based, discourse-pragmatic model of interrogatives as proposed by Rosemeyer (this issue). Applying this model, first, to the
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The pragmatism of drawing context networks Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2021-07-13 David G. Butt,Alison Rotha Moore,Canzhong Wu,John Cartmill
AbstractLinguistics has embraced the functional and contextual turn but, when building tools for systematic contextual description, we have not made as much use as we could of our own functional traditions. Rather, we have largely relied on the metaphors of law and rule, which do not adequately capture tensions between consistency and variability in how language and context relate to each other. Our
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Modelling interfaces with context in SFL Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2021-04-07 Miriam Taverniers
AbstractThis is a study of the tools for describing language-in-context in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), andspecifically, the way in which dynamic time can be added to this description. Of central importance in this exploration are theconcepts of stratification and instantiation and their interaction, and the way in which this interaction is ‘achieved’metafunctionally and dynamically through
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Context in Systemic Functional Linguistics Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2021-04-07 Tom Bartlett,Wendy L. Bowcher
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Another turn of the screw on the history of the reaction object construction Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2021-04-07 Tamara Bouso,Pablo Ruano San Segundo
AbstractThis article deals with the Reaction Object Construction (ROC), as in She smiled disbelief, wherean intransitive verb (smile), by adding an emotional object (disbelief), acquires the extendedsense “express X by V−ing” (i.e. “She expressed disbelief by smiling”). Earlier research has suggested a diachronic connectionbetween the ROC and Direct Discourse Constructions (DDCs) of the type She smiled
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Context of situation and the role of language Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2021-04-07 Wendy L. Bowcher
Abstract‘Role’ is typically defined according to the part and/or function that something or someone contributes to asituation. This two-fold perspective is also inherent in discussions of the role of language: the ‘amount’ of language that isinvolved in a situation and the ‘function’ of language in a situation, with both perspectives relating to the non-linguisticsystems that may be involved in the
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Discourse markers as a lens to variation across speech and writing Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2021-01-20 Michal Marmorstein
Abstract This paper explores the use of the discourse marker (DM) yaʕni (lit. ‘it means’) in spoken and written Egyptian-Cairene Arabic. The DM yaʕni originates in conversational interaction and is symbiotic with its socio-cognitive constraints and goals: it serves to facilitate the verbalization of new or hard-to-activate ideas and to optimize the verbalization of already-introduced ideas, so as to
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On the formation of a conjecturing clause-taking predicate in Modern Chinese Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2020-11-04 Haiping Long, Fang Wu, Francesco Ursini, Zhijun Qin
Abstract This article claims that the conjecturing clause-taking huaiyi predicate in Modern Chinese (e.g. Renmen huaiyi zheming taoyi de jingcha hen keneng canyu le zheqi anjian. ‘People conjecture that the escaped policeman had probably been involved in the case.’) is actually a parenthetical structure. Diachronically, it does not develop from an NP-taking huaiyi predicate (e.g. Wo hen huaiyi zhe
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A systemic functional study of modal verbs in the Chinese clause Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2020-07-06 Shu Yang
Abstract Previous studies of Chinese modal verbs in the traditional framework (e.g. Lu 2004 ; Peng 2007 ; Tang 2000 ; Tiee 1985 ; Tsang 1981 ; Xie 2002 ; Xu 2007 ) have mainly focused on the description of semantic and syntactic features of modals that occur in the middle of the clause and attached little significance to the functions that modal verbs serve when they appear at different positions in
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Interpersonal functions of interjections Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2020-07-06 Yi Jing
Abstract Motivated by the frequent omission of interjections from film subtitles, this study investigates the interpersonal functions of interjections, and seeks to disentangle their meaning relations. Based on the analysis of interjections from six English language films under the theoretical framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), the study primarily classifies the functions of interjections
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Give as a light verb Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2020-07-06 Elena Martínez Caro, Jorge Arús-Hita
Abstract Light Verb Constructions (LVCs) have received widespread attention. Research on these constructions, however, has for the most part focused exclusively on their syntactic and lexical-semantic properties. Additionally, studies devoted to specific LVCs tend to neglect the phrasal-semantic and pragmatic variation brought about by the combination of a light verb with different nominal complements
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Nominalisations in scientific English Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2020-07-06 Jing Hao
Abstract This paper examines nominalisation in scientific discourse in English, focusing on a distinction between what I will refer to as ‘live’ and ‘dead’ grammatical metaphors. Live metaphors refer to a nominal realisation of an ideational discourse semantic figure; dead metaphors are found in the same nominalisations as live metaphors, but they realise an entity rather than a figure. The distinction
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Competing ditransitive constructions in Enets Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2020-07-06 Olesya Khanina, Andrey Shluinsky
Abstract This paper reports on a corpus study of two ditransitive constructions in Enets (Uralic, Samoyedic): the standard ditransitive construction and the so-called Destinative construction involving a specific destinative nominal morpheme. We suggest that the mutual distribution of the two competing constructions depends on referential properties of theme and information structure of the clause
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Presupposed evaluation in environmental argumentative discourse Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2020-07-06 Gabrina Pounds
This paper shows how a novel perspective on the analysis of evaluation in argumentative discourse may be used to explore the values that underlie environmental debates, claims and policies. Expressions of evaluation in discourse have been studied from a number of different perspectives, all highlighting the fact that evaluation may be expressed cumulatively, through a combination of different linguistic
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Review of Ciardelli, Groenendijk & Roelofsen (2019): Inquisitive semantics Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2020-06-30 Vít Punčochář
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The role of (historical) pragmatics in the use of response particles Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2020-06-30 Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Abstract This paper studies the synchronic uses and diachronic evolution of a small set of so-called “response particles” in French, viz. the contemporary forms oui ‘yes’, si ‘yes’, and non ‘no’, and their historical sources, as well as a by now largely obsolete fourth particle nenni ‘no’. Among current models of response particle usage, the leading syntactic model is argued to be fundamentally flawed
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Negation in complement clauses of fear-verbs Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2020-06-30 Nina Dobrushina
Abstract Complement clauses of verbs of fear often contain expletive negation, which is negative marking without negative meaning. Expletive negation in fear-complements regularly co-occurs with non-indicative moods, such as subjunctive, conjunctive, or conditional. The aim of this paper is to provide a diachronic explanation for the phenomenon of expletive negation in complement clauses of fear-verbs
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On the status of wh-exclamatives in English Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2020-06-30 Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva
Abstract Exclamative expressions like What an enormous crowd came! and How wonderful this journey is! have been described as forming one of the four basic sentence (or clause) types of English. The present paper discusses the main features of this type and analyzes them with reference to the framework of Discourse Grammar. It is argued that the structure of exclamatives can be related to other sentence
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Interacting voices structure a text Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2020-06-16 Tomoko Sawaki
Abstract This paper quantitatively measures the distribution of dialogic elements across structural units in the introductory chapters of history theses with the aim of uncovering the roles of dialogic elements in constructing texts. The research was designed to test Bakhtin’s perspective on genre, which holds that viewpoints introduced into a discourse dialogise the text in such a way as to fulfil
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Practices of indexing discrepant assumptions with German ich dachte (‘I thought’) in talk-in-interaction Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2020-06-16 Arnulf Deppermann, Silke Reineke
Abstract This paper studies practices of indexing discrepant assumptions accomplished by turn-constructional units with ich dachte (‘I thought’) in German talk-in-interaction. Building on the analysis of 141 instances from the corpus FOLK, we identify three sequential environments in which ich dachte is used to index that an assumption which a speaker (has) held contrasts with some other, contextually
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Vera Benninghoven. The functions of ‘general nouns’: Theory and corpus analysis Functions of Language (IF 0.556) Pub Date : 2020-06-05 Charlotte Maekelberghe