scholarly journals Pseudo-cleft constructions in Swedish talk-in-interaction: Turn projection and discourse organization

Lingua ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 103167
Author(s):  
Jan Lindström ◽  
Sofie Henricson ◽  
Martina Huhtamäki
Keyword(s):  
Cleft Constructions ◽  
Discourse Organization

scholarly journals Discourse markers in non-native EFL teacher talk

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria Vickov ◽  
Eva Jakupčević
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Classroom Discourse ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Discourse Markers ◽  
School Students ◽  
Efl Teacher ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Discourse Organization ◽  
Primary And Secondary School

The present study aims to investigate the use of discourse markers (DMs) in non-native (Croatian) EFL teachers´ talk with primary and secondary school students. The study concentrates on the occurrences and frequencies of DMs, but it also provides an account of the function distribution of the three most frequently used DMs (ok, so, and). The quantitative and qualitative analyses of the recorded transcriptions reveal that the teachers use a variety of DMs, almost exclusively the ones typical of classroom management and classroom discourse organization, with no significant differences in the patterns of DM use with the primary and secondary school students. The DMs fulfill a number of structural and interpersonal functions mainly aimed at providing coherent and stimulating classroom discourse. The findings of this study might contribute to raising awareness of the diversified functions of DMs, which could facilitate non-native EFL teachers´ overall lesson organization and structuring of particular teaching segments.

scholarly journals The Copula and Existential Verbs in Qiang

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-249
Author(s):  
Randy J. LaPolla ◽  
Chenglong Huang
Keyword(s):  
Verb Constructions ◽  
Cleft Constructions

This paper discusses the copula and existential verb constructions in Qiang, a Tibeto-Burman language of northern Sichuan, China. There is only one copula verb in Qiang, which can be used in equational, identificational, attributive, naming, and cleft constructions, as well as one type of possessive construction. There are five existential verbs in Qiang, the use of which depends on the semantics of the referent being predicated as existing and its location. The existential verbs have a number of the characteristics of adjective-like stative verbs, and can be modified by adverbs of degree, but they cannot directly modify nouns. Also, the meaning of reduplication of existential verbs is different from that of adjective-like stative verbs: reduplication of existential verbs results in transitivization, while reduplication of adjective-like stative verbs results in emphasis of degree.

Specification predication: Unexpectedness and cleft constructions in Tagalog

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-254
Author(s):  
Anja Latrouite
Keyword(s):  
Second Step ◽  
Discourse Function ◽  
Hunger Games ◽  
The Hunger Games ◽  
Cleft Constructions

Abstract English exhibits a large number of cleft constructions. Out of these constructions, the English it-cleft construction, which may express more than one information-structural packaging (Declerck 1988), is often taken to translate syntactically rather different constructions in other languages. In this paper, I will explore the morphosyntactic make-up and functional range of a construction in Tagalog that is often equated with, or translated by, but vastly more frequent, than the English it-cleft in our corpus. In a first step, the notion of cleft construction will be reviewed and critically investigated with respect to how appropriate it is for a language like Tagalog. In a second step, the discourse function of the ang-inversion construction in contrast to the English cleft constructions is explored on the basis of examples taken from the Tagalog version of the trilogy The Hunger Games Trilogy (Collins, 2008-2010; translated into Tagalog by Janis de los Reyes, 2012). A crucial goal is to gain a better understanding of those cases, in which the Tagalog ang-construction is used, but the English cleft construction is ruled out or at least dispreferred.

Creating versatility in Thai demonstratives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shoichi Iwasaki ◽  
Parada Dechapratumwan
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Joint Attention ◽  
Basic Function ◽  
Multiple Functions ◽  
Position Analysis ◽  
Discourse Organization

Abstract Beyond their basic function to index exophoric and endophoric referents, Thai demonstratives have a host of pragmatic functions to encode concerns regarding discourse organization, subjectivity, and intersubjectivity. Based on a detailed analysis of demonstratives used in conversation, we attempt to uncover the pattern of grammaticalization for this class of words in Thai, and to propose a mechanism that allows them to develop multiple functions. Since demonstratives are indexical signs and are qualitatively distinct from content words, we must view the grammaticalization process of demonstratives differently from that of content words. In this paper, we use the model of the joint attention triangle based on Diessel’s earlier work and the functional utterance frame based on the “attractor position” analysis for grammaticalization of nouns and verbs advanced by Bisang (1996) to analyze how exactly demonstratives come to acquire pragmatic functions.

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