Overview

This volume gathers together for the first time contributions from the most relevant approaches in discourse segmentation developed in the last fifteen years in Romance languages. All these approaches share the assumption that discourses (either oral or written) can be fully divided into units and subunits: just like sentences are fully analyzed with the help of Syntax, discourse can be fully analyzed with the help of Pragmatics. In this sense, the approaches in this volume represent a step forward with respect to the issues in segmentation addressed by Conversational Analysis or by Discourse Analysis. The research questions addressed in this volume range from the distribution of foci to the coupling of gestures and discourse units, the treatment of discourse markers or the interplay between intonation and discourse organization; all of great interest for General Linguistics, as well as for Romance Languages.

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Author:   Salvador Pons Bordería (University of Valencia/IULMA)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   250
Weight:   0.650kg
ISBN:  

9789027256553

ISBN 10:   9027256551
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   14 November 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Models of discourse segmentation in Romance languages: An overview (by Pons Borderia, Salvador); 2. The Basel Model for paragraph segmentation: The construction units, their relationships and linguistic indication (by Ferrari, Angela); 3. The contribution of the Basel model to the description of polyfunctional discourse markers: The case of It. anche, Fr. aussi, and Sp. tambien (by De Cesare Greenwald, Anna-Maria); 4. Parenthetical verbs as a challenge for discourse units (by Rossari, Corinne); 5. Absolute initial position (by Arguedas, Maria Estelles); 6. On the delimitation of discursive units in colloquial Spanish: Val.Es.Co application model (by Nebot, Adrian Cabedo); 7. Intonation and gesture in the segmentation of speech units: The discursive marker vraiment: integration, focalisation, formulation (by Morel, Mary Annick); 8. The topologic hypothesis of prominence as a cue to information structure in Italian (by Lombardi Vallauri, Edoardo); 9. Initiating a discourse unit in spoken French: Prosodic and syntactic features of the left periphery (by Degand, Liesbeth)

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