Discourse Markers Across Languages: A Contrastive Study Of Second-Level Discourse Markers In Native And Non-Native Text With Implications For General ... (Routledge Advances In Corpus Linguistics)

This book offers a corpus-based comparative study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functions. Part One provides a descriptive account of multi-word discourse markers in written English, French and German, focussing on dicussion of interlingual equivalence. Part Two examines the use of multi-word markers by non-native speakers of English and discusses lexicographical and pedagogical implications.

• | Author: Siepmann Dirk
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Feb 09, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138868299
• | ISBN-13: 9781138868298