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
Livre:
Contrastive Discourse Analysis: functional and corpus perspectives
  1. Maite Taboada (coord.)
  2. Susana Doval Suárez (coord.)
  3. Elsa González Álvarez (coord.)

Éditorial: Equinox

ISBN: 9781908049759

Année de publication: 2013

Pages: 17-40

Type: Chapitre d'ouvrage

Résumé

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.