General Extenders - The Forms and Functions of a New Linguistic Category

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Referential Function and Categorization; 3. Interpersonal Function and Intersubjectivity; 4. Personal Function and Subjectivity; 5. Textual Function and Turn Construction; 6. Historical Development and Change; 7. Social Marking and Variation; 8. In Different Languages; 9. In Learner Language and Language Teaching; 10. Reflections and Projections.

About the author

Maryann Overstreet is Professor of German at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. Her research focuses on discourse and pragmatics. Her publications include Whales, Candlelight and Stuff Like That: General Extenders in English Discourse (1999) and The Routledge Modern German Reader (2016).George Yule has taught Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Hawai'i, the University of Minnesota and Louisiana State University. His publications include The Study of Language (2020), Discourse Analysis (with G. Brown, 1983) and (with M. Overstreet) Puzzlings (2017).

Summary

General extenders are everyday features of spoken language that have gone virtually unnoticed in linguistics, but are crucial to successful communication. This pioneering work provides a comprehensive analysis of this new linguistic category, offering a valuable resource for researchers and students in linguistics, and language educators.

Product details

• Authors: Maryann Overstreet, Maryann (University of Hawaii Overstreet, Overstreet Maryann, George Yule, George (University of Hawaii Yule, Yule George
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781108837231
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83723-1
• No. of pages: 10000
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Language: reference & general, Language: reference and general, Phonetics, phonology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc