Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains: Cognitive and cross-linguistic approaches
Edited by Matthias Klumm, Anita Fetzer and Evelien Keizer
Special issue of Functions of Language 30:1 (2023) v, 135 pp.
Matthias Klumm
List of John Benjamins publications in which Matthias Klumm is involved.
Titles
Nominal and Pronominal Address in Jamaica and Trinidad: Variation and patterns
Matthias Klumm
This book examines the various patterns of nominal and pronominal address used in Jamaica and Trinidad, the two most populous islands of the English-speaking Caribbean. Given that the Anglo-Caribbean context has so far been largely neglected in address research, this study aims to provide an… read more[Topics in Address Research, 3] 2021. xiv, 246 pp.
2026 Discourse relations and temporal adjuncts in written Present-Day English Adverbs and Particles at the Form-Meaning Interface, Coniglio, Marco, Kalle Müller and Markus Steinbach (eds.), pp. 330–351 | Chapter
This paper investigates the use of chains of clause-initial temporal adjuncts as signals of continuative and contrastive discourse relations in written English discourse. Drawing on 88 examples from the magazine section of the British National Corpus, the study shows that the linguistic… read more
2023 The linguistic realization of continuative discourse relations in English discourse: A context-based analysis across narrative and argumentative genres Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains: Cognitive and cross-linguistic approaches, Klumm, Matthias, Anita Fetzer and Evelien Keizer (eds.), pp. 16–40 | Article
This paper examines the linguistic realization of continuative discourse relations in British English written discourse comparing narrative and argumentative dyadically edited texts. The data comprise 18 co-edited texts and metadata documenting the editing process (keystroke logs and transcripts… read more
2023 Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains: Cognitive and cross-linguistic approaches Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains: Cognitive and cross-linguistic approaches, Klumm, Matthias, Anita Fetzer and Evelien Keizer (eds.), pp. 4–15 | Introduction
2022 The trappings of order: Linguistic features of Anglophone Caribbean administrative writing English World-Wide 43:1, pp. 66–95 | Article
This study builds off of previous research into Caribbean Standard Englishes (which has largely used newspaper genres) by comparing the rates of features found in corpora of Bahamian, Jamaican, British, and American administrative writing, paying particular attention to whether and how the noted… read more