Robert Englebretson

List of John Benjamins publications in which Robert Englebretson is involved.

Titles

Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction

Edited by Robert Englebretson

This volume contributes to the burgeoning field of research on stance by offering a variety of studies based in natural discourse. These collected papers explore the situated, pragmatic, and interactional character of stancetaking, and present new models and conceptions of stance to spark future… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 164] 2007. viii, 323 pp.

Searching for Structure: The problem of complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation

Robert Englebretson

This book argues against the existence of complementation in colloquial Indonesian, and discusses the ramifications of these findings for a discourse-functional understanding of grammatical categories and linguistic structure. Based on a close analysis of a corpus of spontaneous conversational… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 13] 2003. x, 205 pp.

Articles

Englebretson, Robert 2008 From subordinate clause to noun-phrase: Yang constructions in colloquial Indonesian Crosslinguistic Studies of Clause Combining: The multifunctionality of conjunctions, Laury, Ritva (ed.), pp. 1–33 | Article

This paper addresses the blurring of a distinction between subordinate clause and nominal phrase in colloquial Indonesian conversation. Specifically, it presents a discourse-based analysis of the forms and functions of constructions introduced by the morpheme yang. Previous literature has generally… read more

Englebretson, Robert 2007 Grammatical resources for social purposes: Some aspects of stancetaking in colloquial Indonesian conversation Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction, Englebretson, Robert (ed.), pp. 69–110 | Article

Englebretson, Robert 2007 Stancetaking in discourse: An introduction Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction, Englebretson, Robert (ed.), pp. 1–25 | Article