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Discourse Markers and Beyond

Descriptive and Critical Perspectives on Discourse-Pragmatic Devices across Genres and Languages

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Authors:
  1. Péter B. Furkó

    1. Department of English Linguistics, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest, Hungary

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  • Promotes interdisciplinarity by offering a combination of descriptive and critical approaches to discourse markers
  • Draws on both data-driven and data-based corpus linguistic analysis
  • Presents a comparison of automated and manual annotation of oral discourse markers

Part of the book series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse (PSDS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Preliminary Issues: Category Membership, Methodology, Alternative Perspectives on Discourse Markers

    • Péter B. Furkó
    Pages 1-35

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 247-285
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About this book

This book explores the use of discourse markers - lexical items where drawing a distinction between propositional and non-propositional, syntactically-semantically integrated and discourse-pragmatic uses is especially relevant. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, descriptive and critical (CDA) perspectives, and manual annotation and automatized analyses, the author argues that Discourse Markers (DMs) cannot be effectively studied in isolation, but must instead be contextualised with reference to other discourse-pragmatic devices and their language and genre backgrounds. This book will be of interest to students and academics working in the fields of DM research and critical discourse studies, and will also appeal to scholars working in areas such as genre studies, second language acquisition (SLA), literary analysis, contemporary cinematography, Tolkien scholarship, and Bible studies.

Reviews

“This book makes a valuable contribution for several reasons. It is written in a lucid and reader-friendly manner with well-structured chapters … it would be eminently enlightening for students and scholars interested in studying DMs.” (Reza Kazemian, Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 164, 2020) “This highly innovative book is an indispensable source for researchers engaged in the investigation of discourse markers in various languages and genres. Applying a new complex discourse and pragmatic perspective and methodology, which integrate automatized annotation methods of large datasets as well as fine-grained human qualitative analyses of individual examples, the present work is a highly recommended reading for experts, researchers, students of these fields and for anyone simply interested in the study of human communication.” (Enikő Németh T., University of Szeged, Hungary)

“This volume contains rigorous empirical study which focuses on technical aspects of discourse annotation, whilst also crossing over with critical approaches in Discourse Studies. The book is likely to become a standard reference in research on discourse markers and especially their relevance to Critical Discourse Analysis. Thorough in its analytical grasp and broad in its thematic scope, this book is amust-read for researchers of Discourse Studies, as well as discourse analysis, pragmatics and discourse marker research.” (Ildikó Vaskó, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of English Linguistics, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest, Hungary

    Péter B. Furkó

About the author

Péter B. Furkó is Associate Professor in English Applied Linguistics and Vice Dean for Science and Research at the Department of English Linguistics at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Hungary.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Discourse Markers and Beyond

  • Book Subtitle: Descriptive and Critical Perspectives on Discourse-Pragmatic Devices across Genres and Languages

  • Authors: Péter B. Furkó

  • Series Title: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37763-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37762-5Published: 27 December 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37765-6Published: 27 December 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37763-2Published: 26 December 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2946-5990

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-6008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 285

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Genre, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Semantics, Corpus Linguistics

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