The meaning and functions of the Swedish discourse marker alltså—Evidence from translation corpora

The topic of this paper is to study to what extent a contrastive analysis can contribute to the analysis of discourse markers. Another issue which is explored is whether the contrastive analysis can be enriched by considering the grammaticalization and pragmaticalization of discourse markers. I have...

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Autor principal:	Karin Aijmer
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Lenguaje:	CA EN
Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2007
Materias:	discourse markers translation parallel corpus grammaticalization pragmaticaliza- tion alltså Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:76857fcfb79443e7b8dd1a9e2474f6562021-11-27T10:47:46ZThe meaning and functions of the Swedish discourse marker alltså—Evidence from translation corpora10.5565/rev/catjl.1231695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/76857fcfb79443e7b8dd1a9e2474f6562007-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/123https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719The topic of this paper is to study to what extent a contrastive analysis can contribute to the analysis of discourse markers. Another issue which is explored is whether the contrastive analysis can be enriched by considering the grammaticalization and pragmaticalization of discourse markers. I have chosen to study the Swedish discourse marker alltså and its German cognate also with inferential meaning. It is shown that alltså (and German also) develops either into a question marker or a reformulation marker. By distinguishing two types of reformulation markers we can explain that the consecutive adverb develops meanings such as that is or in other words. It is also shown that there are differences between Swedish and German which can be explained by grammaticalization.Karin AijmerUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticlediscourse markerstranslationparallel corpusgrammaticalizationpragmaticaliza- tionalltsåPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 6, Iss 1 (2007)
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description	The topic of this paper is to study to what extent a contrastive analysis can contribute to the analysis of discourse markers. Another issue which is explored is whether the contrastive analysis can be enriched by considering the grammaticalization and pragmaticalization of discourse markers. I have chosen to study the Swedish discourse marker alltså and its German cognate also with inferential meaning. It is shown that alltså (and German also) develops either into a question marker or a reformulation marker. By distinguishing two types of reformulation markers we can explain that the consecutive adverb develops meanings such as that is or in other words. It is also shown that there are differences between Swedish and German which can be explained by grammaticalization.
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title	The meaning and functions of the Swedish discourse marker alltså—Evidence from translation corpora
title_short	The meaning and functions of the Swedish discourse marker alltså—Evidence from translation corpora
title_full	The meaning and functions of the Swedish discourse marker alltså—Evidence from translation corpora
title_fullStr	The meaning and functions of the Swedish discourse marker alltså—Evidence from translation corpora
title_full_unstemmed	The meaning and functions of the Swedish discourse marker alltså—Evidence from translation corpora
title_sort	meaning and functions of the swedish discourse marker alltså—evidence from translation corpora
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The meaning and functions of the Swedish discourse marker alltså—Evidence from translation corpora

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