Metalanguage in Interaction: Hebrew Discourse Markers

by Yael Maschler

Metalanguage in Interaction is about the crystallization of metalanguage employed throughout interaction into the discourse markers which permeate talk. Based on close analysis of naturally-occurring Hebrew conversation, it is a synchronic study of the grammaticization of discourse markers, a phenomenon until now mostly studied from a diachronic perspective. It constitutes the first monograph in the fields of Hebrew interactional linguistics and Hebrew...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027254265
• ISBN13: 9789027254269
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 258 Pages