In:Semantic-Pragmatic Change from Intersubjective to Textual Meanings
Edited by Giulio Scivoletto and Ryo Takamura
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 353] 2025
► pp. v–vi
Table of contents
Introduction: Semantic-pragmatic change from intersubjective to textual meanings1
Giulio Scivoletto
Noriko O. Onodera
Ryo Takamura
Chapter 1.Discourse orientation and extreme subjectification17
Heiko Narrog
Chapter 2.Pretend and actual speech events: Two manifestations of (inter)subjectivity in formulaic adverbials with speech event lexemes40
Katsunobu Izutsu
Mitsuko Narita Izutsu
Chapter 3.From intersubjective to textual use of well as a discourse marker: A study from the perspective of politeness76
Ryo Takamura
Chapter 4.Bidirectional changes between modal and conditional
in Mandarin104
in Mandarin104
Yueh Hsin Kuo
Chapter 5.Between intersubjectivity and textuality: On the connectives derived from prohibitives in Mandarin Chinese129
Bing Zhu
Chapter 6.Pathways to de(inter)subjectification in Japanese: Considering the status of ‘from intersubjective to textual’153
Yuho Kitazaki
Chapter 7.From vocative contexts to digressive uses: On Spanish ah190
Adrià Pardo Llibrer
Chapter 8.From intersubjective to textual through monologization: A case study from Italian221
Andrea Sansò
Chapter 9.Rethinking intersubjectification through the evolution
of discourse markers in Sicilian244
of discourse markers in Sicilian244
Giulio Scivoletto
Afterword: From the perspectives of grammaticalization and constructionalization272
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Index
