Concession in spoken English, w. Audio-CD - On the realisation of a discourse-pragmatic relation

On the function of concession in public spoken discourseThis book focuses on Concession, one of the so-called adverbial relations, in English. Particular attention is drawn to its realisation and function in public spoken discourse. In contrast to earlier semasiological studies, it identifies the relation on the basis of three actions: claiming, acknowledging and countering. This approach uncovers that Concession is rather frequent in spoken Language. It occurs in a variety of structural patterns and its discourse functions extend beyond face-saving.For the analysis the study successfully combines the advantages of the qualitative methods of Conversa-tion Analysis with quantitative corpus research. This forces the analyst beyond the clear cases and draws attention to the specificity of the individual case while at the same time offering the opportunity of generalising the qualitative results.

Product details

• Authors: Dagmar Barth-Weingarten
• Publisher: Narr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Mixed media product
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9783823358220
• ISBN: 978-3-8233-5822-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Weight: 564 g
• Illustrations: with Audio-CD
• Series: Language in Performance; Language in Performance (LiP); Language in Performance 28; Language in Performance (LiP); Language in Performance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Englisch, Anglistik / Sprachwissenschaft