Subjectivity in Language and Discourse

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Book

Pages, Illustrations:

449 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Table of contents

List of Contributors

Introduction
Nicole Baumgarten, Juliane House and Inke Du Bois

Part I Individual Languages and Registers
Super, Uber, So, and Totally: Over-the-top Intensification to Mark Subjectivity in Colloquial Discourse
Rachelle Waksler

Collective Aspects of Subjectivity: The Subject Pronoun emeı´B (‘we’) in Modern Greek
Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou

Objectivizing Subjectivity: Person Deixis and the Constitution of Dialogic Identity (with an Example of German Discourse Data)
Gabriele Diewald and Marijana Kresic´

Authorial Stance in Research Article Abstracts and Introductions from Two Disciplines
Phuong Dzung Pho

Subjectivity in the Discourse of Depressed Acute Care Hospital Patients
Helen Tebble

Part II Language Contact Settings
Subjectivity in English Lingua Franca Interactions
Juliane House

Metadiscourse and the Construction of Speaker Identities in L2 Academic Presentational Talk
Nicole Baumgarten

Saying What You Think: An Analysis of French and Australian English Non-Native Speaker Expression of Subjectivity
Kerry Mullan

Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity as Aspects of Epistemic Stance Marking
Janus Mortensen

Subjective Modality in Persian and English Parallel Texts
Mohammad Amouzadeh, Manoochehr Tavangar and Shadi Shahnaseri

Part III Cross-Linguistic Comparison
Subjectivity in Contrast: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison of ‘I Think’ in Australian English, French and Swedish
Kerry Mullan and Susanna Karlsson

Hedging in German and Russian Conference Presentations: A Cross-Cultural View
Anna Breitkopf-Siepmann

Grammatical, Pragmatic and Sociolinguistic Aspects of the First Person Plural Pronoun
Inke Du Bois

Subjectivity in Academic Discourse: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison of the Author’s Presence in French, Italian and German Research Articles in Linguistics
Nadine Rentel

Authorial Presence and Stance in German and French Letters to Shareholders
Anne Ku¨ppers

Self-Presentation and Adaptation in Institutional Discourse: An Analysis of German and French Introductory Rounds of University Seminars
Claudia Scharioth

Author Index
Subject Index

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Hedging is an essential part of everyday communication. It is a discourse strategy which is used to reduce commitment to the force or truth of an utterance to achieve an appropriate pragmatic effect. This title provides an overview of research on the topic by bringing together studies from a ...

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Demonstrates the synergies that can result from interdisciplinary collaboration. This book examines prosodic cues to referential and discourse/textual meaning. It covers the role played by prosody in the negotiation of speaker change in conversational interaction.

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Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics and Pragmatics

Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Jacqueline Visconti

Focuses on semantic and pragmatic change, its causes and mechanisms. This work gathers the papers that offer studies of language-specific cases of meaning change in particular notional domains. It includes case-studies covering central semantic domains such as concession, evidentiality, ...

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Language in Life, and a Life in Language: Jacob Mey, a Festschrift

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Professor Jacob Mey is one of the most respected, enterprising, industrious, scholarly and, avuncular members of the many linguistics communities in which he has worked. This collection includes invited papers that honours Professor Mey on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.

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Grammaticalization and Pragmatics: Facts, Approaches, Theoretical Issues

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Mitigation

Claudia Caffi

Presents an integrated pragmatic approach to communication, which aims at integrating pragmatic views with insights from different research fields into an extended framework where psychological aspects of communication in context also can be taken into account.

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Lexical Markers of Common Grounds

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Approaches to Discourse Particles

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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 ...