Graham Ranger
List of John Benjamins publications in which Graham Ranger is involved.
2019 Chapter 3. The representation of surprise in English and the retroactive construction of possible paths Surprise at the Intersection of Phenomenology and Linguistics, Depraz, Natalie and Agnès Celle (eds.), pp. 43–56 | Chapter
The current article considers the linguistic representation of surprise in English within the framework of the Theory of Enunciative and Predicative Operations. English appears not to have any markers specialised in the expression of surprise. Here I argue that English does nonetheless possess… read more
2018 Chapter 8. ‘I think’: An enunciative and corpus-based perspective Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Ayoun, Dalila, Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari (eds.), pp. 165–184 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on the sequence ‘I think’ as a discourse marker, used in evidential or epistemic contexts. ‘I think’ is seen to assume a variety of different values, which Kaltenböck (2010), among others, identifies as “shielding”, “approximator”, “structural” or “booster” functions. I… read more
2007 Continuity and discontinuity in discourse: Notes on yet and still Connectives as Discourse Landmarks, Celle, Agnès and Ruth Huart (eds.), pp. 177–194 | Article