Cover not available

Contrastive Pragmatics

Special Issue of Languages in Contrast 9:1 (2009)

Editor

Karin Aijmer | University of Gothenburg

[Languages in Contrast, 9:1] 2009. 182 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 24 March 2009

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/lic.9.1

Table of Contents

Introduction	1–4
Articles
Modality and ENGAGEMENT in British and German political interviews Annette Becker	5–22
The intersubjective function of modal adverbs: A contrastive English-French study of adverbs in journalistic discourse Agnès Celle	23–36
Intersubjective positioning in French and English: A contrastive analysis of ‘ça dépend’ and ‘it depends’ Bart Defrancq and Bernard De Clerck	37–72
Challenges in contrast: A function-to-form approach Anita Fetzer	73–97
Interruption in advanced learner French: Issues of pragmatic discrimination Marie-Noëlle Guillot	98–123
Closeness and distance: The changing relationship to the audience in the American TV news show “CBS Evening News” and the Swiss “Tagesschau” Martin Luginbühl	124–143
The nominative and infinitive in English and Dutch: An exercise in contrastive diachronic construction grammar Dirk Noël and Timothy Colleman	144–181

Subjects and metadata

Linguistics

Comparative linguistics

Theoretical linguistics