English Discourse Particles: Evidence from a Corpus

by Karin Aijmer

There are few aspects of language which are more problematic than its discourse particles. The present study of discourse particles draws upon data from the London-Lund Corpus to show how the methods and tools of corpora can sharpen their description. The first part of the book provides a picture of the state of the art in discourse particle studies and introduces the theory and methodology for the analysis in the second part of the book. Discourse...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588112845
• ISBN13: 9781588112842
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 299 Pages