Discourse Markers Across Languages: A Contrastive Study of Second-Level Discourse Markers in Native and Non-Native Text with Implications for General and Pedagogic Lexicography

Dirk, Siepmann (Author)

ISBN 10: 0415349494 / ISBN 13: 9780415349499

Published by Routledge, 2005

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1st edition. 357 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Discourse Markers Across Languages: A Contrastive Study of Second-Level Discourse Markers in Native and Non-Native Text with Implications for General and Pedagogic Lexicography
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415349494
• ISBN 13: 9780415349499
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.7 kilograms

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Synopsis

This book offers a corpus-based comparative study of an almost entirely unexplored set of multi-word lexical items serving pragmatic or text-structuring functions. Part One provides a descriptive account of multi-word discourse markers in written English, French and German, focussing on dicussion of interlingual equivalence. Part Two examines the use of multi-word markers by non-native speakers of English and discusses lexicographical and pedagogical implications.

About the Author

Dirk Siepmann is at the English Department at Siegen University. His research interests are contrastive linguistics, translation, corpus linguistics and language teaching.