In:Discourse Structuring Markers in English: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
[Constructional Approaches to Language 33] 2022
► pp. 59–84
Chapter 4Discourse Structuring Markers and some generalizations about how
they arise
Published online: 4 March 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.33.c4
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.33.c4
Article outline
- 4.1Introduction
- 4.2Pragmatic Markers
- 4.2.1Characteristics of Pragmatic Markers
- 4.2.2Characteristics of Discourse Markers
- 4.3Discourse Structuring Markers
- 4.3.1Constructional properties of Discourse Structuring Markers
- 4.3.2Types of Discourse Structuring Markers
- 4.3.3Interim summary
- 4.4Generalizations about the rise of Discourse Structuring
Markers
- 4.4.1From Circumstance adverbial to [[Conjunct adverbial] ↔ [Discourse Structuring Marker]]
- 4.4.2From monofunctional to multifunctional Discourse Structuring Marker function
- 4.4.3Contexts for the rise of Discourse Structuring Markers
- 4.5A preliminary case study: The development of after all
- 4.5.1 After all in contemporary American English
- 4.5.2A sketch of the history of after all
- 4.6Summary
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