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How to Express Yourself with a Causal Connective

Autor Mirna Pit
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2003
The Dutch, German and French languages display a variety of regularly used connectives all of which introduce causes, arguments or reasons, such as Dutch omdat, want and aangezien, German weil, denn and da, and French parce que, car and puisque. Why should languages have different connectives to express the notion of backward causality? The central argument developed in this book is that different connectives express different degrees of subjectivity. In a series of corpus analyses it is shown that the degree of subjectivity of the main participant involved in the causal relation strongly predicts the occurrence of one or another connective. Hence, language users have at their disposal connectives of varying degrees of subjectivity. In an analysis of judiciary sentences, it is revealed that speakers are actually sensitive of this semantic distinction, and sometimes even exploit it for their communicative purposes: in order to conceal their subjective involvement, judges prefer objective over subjective connectives.This volume makes a contribution to the study of language in use, by applying empirical methods to authentic language data. It will be of interest to anyone concerned with discourse coherence, perspective and subjectivity, corpus linguistics and cross-linguistic analyses.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789042008564
ISBN-10: 9042008563
Pagini: 360
Dimensiuni: 150 x 220 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Brill

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Causal connectives: different perspectives
Chapter 3 Subjectivity
Chapter 4 Subjectivity and Dutch backward causal connectives
Chapter 5 A crosslinguistic study
Chapter 6 Connectives and meanings
References
Index of names
Appendices