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2 - Concepts of Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2021

Bernd Heine ,
Gunther Kaltenböck ,
Tania Kuteva  and
Haiping Long
Bernd Heine
Affiliation:
University of Cologne
Gunther Kaltenböck
Affiliation:
University of Graz
Tania Kuteva
Affiliation:
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Haiping Long
Affiliation:
Sun Yat-Sen University, China
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Summary

This chapter proposes a framework for analyzing the history of discourse markers. The framework rests, on the one hand, on the analysis of historical text data as they were provided in previous research. On the other hand, it proposes two contrasting mechanisms that need to be distinguished in order to reconstruct the rise and development of discourse markers. These mechanisms are grammaticalization and cooptation. It is via cooptation that discourse markers are transferred to the level of discourse management, thereby losing their status as constituents of a sentence, no longer being a part of the syntax, semantics, and frequently also of the prosodical form of sentences.

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decategorializationdiscourse grammarearly grammaticalizationlate grammaticalizationthetical
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The Rise of Discourse Markers , pp. 56 - 90
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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