Discourse particles fulfil many different functions; they contribute to text structuring, dialogue management, turn-taking, and politeness. This reference presents a spectrum of approaches to discourse particles/markers in their richness and variability, whilst ensuring that the differences and similarities between the approaches are comparable.
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Towards an Understanding of the Spectrum of Approaches to Discourse Particles: Introduction to the Volume, K. Fischer Part I: Polysemy-Based Approaches A Dynamic Polysemy Approach to the Lexical Semantics of Discourse Markers (with an Exemplary Analysis of French Toujours), M-B. Mosegaard Hansen Discourse Markers in English: a Discourse-Pragmatic View, D.M. Lewis The Rise of Discourse Markers in Italian: a Specific Type of Language Change, R. Waltereit A Functional Approach to the Study of Discourse Markers, S. Pons Borderia Pragmatic Markers in Translation: a Methodological Proposal, K. Aijmer, et al. The Description of Text Relation Markers in the Geneva Model of Discourse Organization, E. Roulet A Dynamic Approach to Discourse Particles, H. Zeevat Part II: Monosemy-Based Approaches A Relevance-Theoretic Approach to Discourse Particles in Singapore English, Ler Soon Lay Vivien From Procedural Meaning to Processing Requirement, T. Nyan Towards a Theory of Discourse Markers, B. Fraser What are Particles Good For?, H. Weydt The Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach to Discourse Markers, C.E. Travis Epistemic Modalities and the Discourse Particles of Singapore,
A.F. Gupta Integrating Prosodic and Contextual Cues in the Interpretation of Discourse Markers, Li-Chiung Yang Formal Properties of a Subset of Discourse Markers: Connectives, C. Rossari Discourse Marker Research and Theory: Revisiting and, D. Schiffrin Discourse Markers as Attentional Cues at Discourse Transitions, G. Redeker A Dynamic-Interactional Approach to Discourse Markers,
B. Frank-Job Discourse Particles as Morphemes and as Constructions, F. Nemo Discourse Particles and Modal Particles as Grammatical Elements, G. Diewald Frames, Constructions, and Invariant Meanings: the Functional Polysemy of Discourse Particles, K. Fischer Discourse Markers in Italian: Towards a "Compositional" Meaning,
C. Bazzanella
