Forms and Functions of Meta-Discourse : : The Case of Comment Clauses in Present-Day Italian / / Maria Cristina Lo Baido.

This book constitutes the first systematic analysis of meta-discourse in the spoken domain, addressing the question of how, why, and when speakers switch from discourse to meta-discourse by means of comment clauses (e.g., ‘I think’). The case of Present-day Italian is considered, exploring the inter...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2024]
©2024
Year of Publication:2024
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 381
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XX, 276 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Index of Figures
  • Index of Tables
  • 1 Introduction
  • Part I: Meta-discourse, spoken discourse, stance-taking
  • 2 Meta-discourse: definitions, strategies and functions
  • 3 The epistemological value of the investigation of spoken discourse
  • Part II: Methodological considerations
  • 4 Subject of analysis, corpus, and annotation scheme
  • Part III: Meta-discourse in spoken Italian
  • 5 Meta-discourse and speaker-oriented domain
  • 6 Meta-discourse and textual domain
  • 7 Meta-discourse and interpersonal domain
  • 8 Summary and conclusions
  • References