A Contrastive View of Discourse Markers : Discourse Markers of Saying in English and French

This book is a comparative corpus-based study of discourse markers based on verbs of saying in English and French. Based on a wide comparable web corpus, the book investigates how discourse markers work in discourse, and compares their differences of position, scope and collocations both cross-linguistically and within single languages. The author positions this study within the wider epistemological background of the French-speaking 'enunciative' tradition and the English-speaking 'pragmatic' tradition, and it will be of particular interest to students and scholars of semantics, pragmatics and contrastive linguistics. Laure Lansari is Associate Professor at Paris Diderot University, France, where she teaches English/ French contrastive linguistics and translation Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Introduction: Discourse Markers Within Different Linguistic Traditions (Laure Lansari)....Pages 1-47 Defining a Theoretical and Methodological Framework for DMs of “Saying” (Laure Lansari)....Pages 49-93 Overview of the Corpus Findings (Laure Lansari)....Pages 95-113 Corpus Findings I: On va dire and Shall We Say (Laure Lansari)....Pages 115-173 Corpus Findings II: J’allais dire and I Was Going to Say (Laure Lansari)....Pages 175-215 Conclusion: Summary and Perspectives (Laure Lansari)....Pages 217-227 Back Matter ....Pages 229-230