Discourse markers and coherence relationscomparison across markers, languages and modalities

  1. Maite Taboada 1
  2. María de los Ángeles Gómez-González 2
  1. 1 Simon Frazer University
  2. 2 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemana
Liburua:
Contrastive Discourse Analysis: functional and corpus perspectives
  1. Maite Taboada (coord.)
  2. Susana Doval Suárez (coord.)
  3. Elsa González Álvarez (coord.)

Argitaletxea: Equinox

ISBN: 9781908049759

Argitalpen urtea: 2013

Orrialdeak: 17-40

Mota: Liburuko kapitulua

Laburpena

This chapter examines how one particular coherence relation, Concession, is marked across languages and modalities, through an extensive analysis of the Concession relation, examining the types of discourse markers used to signal it. The analysis is contrastive from three different angles: markers, languages and modalities.