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- The Rise of Discourse Markers
- The Rise of Discourse Markers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Development of Discourse Markers
- 2 Concepts of Analysis
- 3 English Discourse Markers
- 4 French Discourse Markers
- 5 Japanese Discourse Markers
- 6 Korean Discourse Markers
- 7 Discourse Markers in Language Contact
- 8 Discussion
- 9 Conclusions
- References
- Language Index
- Author Index
- Subject Index
2 - Concepts of Analysis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 June 2021
- The Rise of Discourse Markers
- The Rise of Discourse Markers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Development of Discourse Markers
- 2 Concepts of Analysis
- 3 English Discourse Markers
- 4 French Discourse Markers
- 5 Japanese Discourse Markers
- 6 Korean Discourse Markers
- 7 Discourse Markers in Language Contact
- 8 Discussion
- 9 Conclusions
- References
- Language Index
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Summary
This chapter proposes a framework for analyzing the history of discourse markers. The framework rests, on the one hand, on the analysis of historical text data as they were provided in previous research. On the other hand, it proposes two contrasting mechanisms that need to be distinguished in order to reconstruct the rise and development of discourse markers. These mechanisms are grammaticalization and cooptation. It is via cooptation that discourse markers are transferred to the level of discourse management, thereby losing their status as constituents of a sentence, no longer being a part of the syntax, semantics, and frequently also of the prosodical form of sentences.
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- The Rise of Discourse Markers , pp. 56 - 90Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021