Cause - Condition - Concession - Contrast : : Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives /

Cause - Condition - Concession - Contrast : : Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives / / ed. by Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Bernd Kortmann.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014
MitwirkendeR:
Auer, Peter,
Barth, Dagmar,
Blijzer, Femke de,
Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth,
Dancygier, Barbara,
Ford, Cecilia E.,
Grevels, Mily,
Göhl, Christine,
Günthner, Susanne,
Kortmann, Bernd,
König, Ekkehard,
Lang, Ewald,
McCawley Akatsuka, Noriko,
Meyer, Paul Georg,
Montolío, Estrella,
Noordman, Leo G. M.,
Pander Maat, Henk,
Sanders, Ted,
Schwenter, Scott A.,
Siemund, Peter,
Strauss, Susan,
Sweetser, Eve,
Thompson, Sandra A.,
Verhagen, Arie,
HerausgeberIn:
Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth,
Kortmann, Bernd,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]
©2000
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Reprint 2021
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 33
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Physical Description:1 online resource (475 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • I. Cause
  • The relevance of causality
  • On the processing of causal relations
  • Domains of use or subjectivity? The distribution of three Dutch causal connectives explained
  • Causal relations in spoken discourse: Asyndetic constructions as a means for giving reasons
  • II. Condition
  • Constructions with if, since, and because. Causality, epistemic stance, and clause order
  • On affirmative and negative complex conditional connectives
  • Pre- and post-positioning of wenn-clauses in spoken and written German
  • Counterfactual reasoning and desirability
  • III. Contrast
  • Adversative connectors on distinct levels of discourse: A re-examination of Eve Sweetser's three-level approach
  • Viewpoints and polysemy: Linking adversative and causal meanings of discourse markers
  • The treatment of contrasts in interaction
  • IV. Concession
  • Concessives on different semantic levels: A typological perspective
  • Causal and concessive clauses: Formal and semantic relations
  • Concession implies causality, though in some other space
  • Concessive patterns in conversation
  • "that's true, although not really, but still": Expressing concession in spoken English
  • From concessive connector to discourse marker: The use of obwohl in everyday German interaction
  • Index
  • Authors' addresses
  • Topics in English Linguistics

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