Cause - Condition - Concession - Contrast: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Bernd Kortmann

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 485
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics 33
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this collection of original and innovative papers, new light is thrown on the nature and the expression of the four probably most-researched coherence relations.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
I. Cause
......Page 16
On the processing of causal relations......Page 42
Domains of use or subjectivity? The distribution of three Dutch causal connectives explained......Page 64
Causal relations in spoken discourse: Asyndetic constructions as a means for giving reasons......Page 90
Constructions with if, since, and because: Causality, epistemic stance, and clause order......Page 118
On affirmative and negative complex conditional connectives......Page 150
Pre- and post-positioning of wenn-clauses in spoken and written German......Page 180
Counterfactual reasoning and desirability......Page 212
Adversative connectors on distinct levels of discourse: A re-examination of Eve Sweetser's three-level approach......Page 242
Viewpoints and polysemy: Linking adversative and causal meanings of discourse markers......Page 264
The treatment of contrasts in interaction......Page 290
Concessives on different semantic levels: A typological perspective......Page 320
Causal and concessive clauses: Formal and semantic relations......Page 348
Concession implies causality, though in some other space......Page 368
Concessive patterns in conversation......Page 388
“that's true, although not really, but still": Expressing concession in spoken English......Page 418
From concessive connector to discourse marker: The use of obwohl in everyday German interaction......Page 446
Index
......Page 476
Authors' addresses
......Page 480

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Когнитивная лингвистика и лингвоконцептология;