Discourses Markers Across Languages

Informationen zum Autor Dirk Siepmann is at the English Department at Siegen University. His research interests are contrastive linguistics, translation, corpus linguistics and language teaching. Klappentext This book offers a corpus-based comparative study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functions. Part One provides a descriptive account of multi-word discourse markers in written English, French and German, focussing on dicussion of interlingual equivalence. Part Two examines the use of multi-word markers by non-native speakers of English and discusses lexicographical and pedagogical implications. Zusammenfassung This book offers a corpus-based contrastive study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Linguistic Considerations 1. Observing Languages: Introduction to Part 1 2. Investigating Routines: Defining and Describing Multi-Word Discourse Markers 3. Identifying Meanings and Functions: An Attempt at a Functional Taxonomy of SLDMs 4. Straddling Cultures: Three Types of Second-Level Discourse Markers in Contrastive Part 2: A Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis with Implications for Dictionary Making 1. Introduction to Part 2 2. Facing Realities: The Performance of Non-native Writers and Translators 3. Lexicographic Treatment of SLDMs 4. Avenues for Further Research.

Product details

• Authors: Siepmann Dirk, Dirk Siepmann, Dirk Siepmann
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.03.2005
• EAN: 9780415349499
• ISBN: 978-0-415-34949-9
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 245 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc