Monographs by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Oxford: Oxford University Press., 2016
This book is an advanced student's grammar of French that integrates traditional grammar with kno... more This book is an advanced student's grammar of French that integrates traditional grammar with knowledge and insights from modern linguistics. Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen takes a structural approach to French grammar: she provides clear descriptions of grammatical rules based explicitly on syntactic structure, and places descriptive emphasis on instances where the grammatical structures of French differ from those used in corresponding contexts in English. The first part of the book provides an introduction to French sentence structure, before the following parts examine the grammar of verbs, nominals, particles, and clauses and sentences.
The Structure of Modern Standard French will be a valuable resource for students of French at undergraduate level and beyond. It assumes some prior knowledge of French grammar but is designed to be accessible to those with no background in linguistics.
Table of Contents
Preface
List of abbreviations
Part I: Understanding French Sentence Structure
1: Simple sentences and their basic constituents
2: The internal structure of clause constituents
3: Complex sentence structures
4: Subordinate clauses
Part II: The Grammar of French Verbs
5: Finite verb forms: Mood
6: Finite verb forms: Tense
7: Finite verb forms: Aspect
8: Finite verb forms: Auxiliaries
9: Non-finite verb forms: The infinitive
10: Non-finite verb forms: The past participle
11: 11. Non-finite verb forms: The present participle and the gérondif
Part III: The Grammar of French Nominals
12: Definite and indefinite determiners
13: Adjectives within the noun phrase
14: Pronouns: Overview
15: Personal and reflexive pronouns
16: Neutral pronouns
17: Pronominal adverbs
18: Possessives and demonstratives
19: Interrogative and relative pronouns and adverbs
20: Indefinites
Part IV: The Grammar of French Particles
21: Prepositions
22: Adverbs, interjections, and coordinating conjunctions
Part V: The Grammar of French Clauses and Sentences
23: Negation and restriction
24: Word order
25: Voice
26: Dislocation, (pseudo-)clefts, and presentative constructions
Further reading
Appendix A: Overview of grammatical functions
Appendix B: Word classes in French
Appendix C: Subordinate clause types in French
Appendix D: Examples of sentence analyses to word level
Appendix E: Overview of the French tenses
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Leiden: Brill. (Originally: Oxford: Elsevier), 2008
The central aim of this study is to elucidate the nature of the semantics / pragmatics distinctio... more The central aim of this study is to elucidate the nature of the semantics / pragmatics distinction in both synchrony and diachrony. The author proposes a definition of semantics and pragmatics that is orthogonal to the question of truth-conditionality, and discusses the status of various types of meaning with respect to this definition.
A corollary aim of the study is to propose an account of how and why erstwhile pragmatically-determined elements of meaning may, in the course of time, become semanticized. The nature, paths, and mechanisms of diachronic sense changes of the relevant type, as well as the motivations for them, are discussed in some detail.
The author combines insights from different sources, prominently frame-based semantics, historical pragmatics, and Peircean semiotics, to arrive at a model of linguistic meaning that is both synchronically and diachronically dynamic, hence capable of integrating structure and usage.
As a case study, the synchronic uses and diachronic evolution of the exceptionally polyfunctional French phasal adverbs déjà ('already'), encore ('still/yet'), toujours ('still'), and enfin ('finally') are analyzed in some detail, with particular attention being paid to the semantic vs pragmatic nature of the various uses of these items.
The book will be of interest to lexical semanticists, pragmaticians, historical linguists, functional/cognitive linguists, discourse analysts, and semioticians.
Contents
Preliminary Material
Pages: i–xii
1: Introduction
Pages: 1–8
2: Particles At The Lexical-Semantics/Pragmatics Interface: A Conceptual Framework
Pages: 9–51
3: A Framework For Describing The Diachronic Evolution Of Phasal Adverbs
Pages: 53–83
4: General Properties Of Phasal An Verbs Across Languages
Pages: 85–122
5: Data And Methodology
Pages: 123–132
6: Content-Level Uses Of The French Phasal An Verbs
Pages: 133–170
7: Context-Level Uses Of The French Phasal Adverbs
Pages: 171–220
8: Conclusion
Pages: 221–228
References
Pages: 229–242
Index
Pages: 243–248
URL: https://brill.com/abstract/title/23303
Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1998
This monograph aims to contribute to linguistic knowledge about the distribution and function of ... more This monograph aims to contribute to linguistic knowledge about the distribution and function of discourse particles, particularly with respect to a small group of particles which are highly frequent in contemporary spoken standard French.
The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 (Theory) defines discourse particles as such, and gives a dynamic global approach to their description. Matters such as previous research on discourse particles, related categories of particles, instructional semantics, the difference between speech and writing, the delimitation of discourse units, competing approaches to discourse structure and to coherence, and methodology are discussed extensively.
Part 2 (Description) offers in-depth corpus-based analyses of six French discourse particles, namely bon, ben, eh bien, puis, donc, and alors, as used in non-elicted native-speaker interaction.
The book is of interest to linguists doing research in semantics, pragmatics and discourse studies.
Table of Contents
Transcription conventions
ix
Preface and acknowledgements
xi
Part I: Theory
Introduction
3
Previous studies
9
Particle research
37
Discourse markers
65
Spoken vs written language
91
Discourse units
113
Cohesion and coherence
171
Data and methodology
201
Part II: Description
Bon and ben
221
Eh bien
262
Puis
291
Donc and alors
321
Conclusion
357
Notes
365
References
385
Author Index
409
Subject Index
415
URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.53
Edited volumes by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Virtually unstudied until the 1980s, discourse markers have gone on to become a growth industry.... more Virtually unstudied until the 1980s, discourse markers have gone on to become a growth industry. Research on markers is central to comprehensive theories of the synchronic linguistic system as such, of the use of language in communication, and of language change. From the very beginning, linguists working on Romance languages have been at the forefront of research on discourse markers. Including among its contributors many of the foremost experts in the field, this volume not only offers substantial state-of-the-art introductions to the diverse facets of contemporary research on discourse markers, with a focus on Romance, but it achieves added value by including in each chapter original and previously unpublished results.
The first part of the book addresses foundational issues: What are discourse markers? What is their relationship to other types of pragmatic markers? The second part considers discourse markers at different levels of linguistic description, in particular: their grammatical status, their semantics and pragmatics, their prosodic features, their positioning within discourse units. The third part outlines different approaches to the study of discourse markers, namely contrastive studies, corpus linguistics, discourse traditions, and historical linguistics. The fourth part explores discourse markers at the interface with central topics in linguistics, such as politeness, social variation, language acquisition and psycholinguistic processing. The final part focuses on discourse markers in each of the major Romance languages, namely French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Romanian.
The volume will be of interest to researchers and students working in the field of Romance studies, general linguists, pragmaticians, discourse analysts, educationalists, and psychologists.
Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 2020
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Introduction: The role of pragmatics in cyclic language change
Maj-Bri... more Table of Contents
Introduction: The role of pragmatics in cyclic language change
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen | pp. 165–181
(NB! A preprint of this paper is available for download elsewhere on my profile.)
Articles
Functional expansions of temporal adverbs and discursive connectives: From Latin tum, tunc, dumque to Old Italian dunque
Chiara Fedriani and Piera Molinelli | pp. 182–207
Connectives and cyclicity: From the Latin temporal phrase illa hora to the Italian discourse marker allora
Chiara Ghezzi and Piera Molinelli | pp. 208–235
Semasiological cyclicity in the evolution of discourse markers: A case from Sicilian
Giulio Scivoletto | pp. 236–262
Parallels between the negative cycle and the rise of interrogative marking in French
Richard Waltereit | pp. 263–288
Future markers in Western Romance: Cyclic change, synchronic variation and diachronic competition
Ulrich Detges | pp. 289–314
Some reflections on semantic–pragmatic cycles
Salvador Pons Bordería and Ana Belén Llopis Cardona | pp. 315–346
https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.96
This volume examines the way participants orient to aspects of th... more https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.96
This volume examines the way participants orient to aspects of their interactions with others as interpersonally sensitive across an array of languages and contemporary institutional settings. The individual chapters address interactional episodes where the participants signal that elements of the exchanges they are engaged in are problematic in terms of the vulnerability of their own and/or each other’s face and the role-identities assumed throughout the interactions.
The volume contributors examine a range of activities. In some of these, an orientation to interpersonal sensitivity is expected, such as citizens’ encounters with traffic police officers, negotiations with a line manager, political news interviews, or public inquiries. Other types of activity, such as service calls or guided tours, involve no such expectations in and of themselves. In some cases, the situated vulnerabilities studied here, whether expected or not, lead to deviation from the expected trajectory of the communicative event, with implications for goal achievement.
The collection of papers draws on diverse analytic perspectives. These include interactional discourse analysis, interactional linguistics, and conversation analysis. The diversity of languages and institutional environments examined will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in face-to-face interaction and serve to stimulate debate in the field of pragmatics and beyond.
Originally published as special issue of Pragmatics and Society 7:4 (2016).
Table of Contents
Introduction
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Rosina Márquez Reiter
1–5
Requests and counters in Russian traffic police officer-citizen encounters: Face and identity implications
Rosina Márquez Reiter, Kristina Ganchenko and Anna Charalambidou
7–33
Negotiating with the Boss: An inter- and cross-cultural perspective on problematic talk
Lars Fant and Annika Denke
35–63
Evading and resisting answering: An analysis of Mexican Spanish news interviews
Ariel Vázquez Carranza
65–89
Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses
James Murphy
91–113
When questioners count on recipients’ lack of knowledge: A recurring ‘question-answer’ format in guided tours
Anna Claudia Ticca and Véronique Traverso
115–133
When routine calls for information become interpersonally sensitive
Sara Orthaber and Rosina Márquez Reiter
135–160
Patterns of thanking in the closing section of UK service calls: Marking conversational macro-structure vs managing interpersonal relations
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
161–189 [This paper is available for download under "Articles" below.]
Index
191
Pragmatics & Society 7(4), 2016
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507–511
Introduction
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507–511
Introduction
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below.]
512–539
Requests and counters in Russian traffic police officer-citizen encounters: Face and identity implications
Rosina Márquez Reiter, Kristina Ganchenko and Anna Charalambidou
540-569
Negotiating with the Boss: An inter- and cross-cultural perspective on problematic talk
Lars Fant and Annika Denke
570–594
Evading and resisting answering: An analysis of Mexican Spanish news interviews
Ariel Vázquez Carranza
595–617
Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses
James Murphy
618–637
When questioners count on recipients’ lack of knowledge: A recurring ‘question-answer’ format in guided tours
Anna Claudia Ticca and Véronique Traverso
638–663
When routine calls for information become interpersonally sensitive
Sara Orthaber and Rosina Márquez Reiter
664-692
Patterns of thanking in the closing section of UK service calls: Marking conversational macro-structure vs managing interpersonal relations
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below.]
URL: https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/ps.7.4/main
http://www.atilf.fr/cilpr2013/actes/section-10.html, 2016
Amsterdam: John Benjamins, Oct 2014
Despite intensive research, negation remains elusive. Its expression across languages, its underl... more Despite intensive research, negation remains elusive. Its expression across languages, its underlying cognitive mechanisms, its development across time, and related phenomena, such as negative polarity and negative concord, leave many unresolved issues of both a definitional and a substantive nature. Such issues are at the heart of the present volume, which presents a twofold contribution. The first part offers a mix of large-scale typological surveys and in-depth investigation of the evolution of negation in individual languages and language families that have not frequently been studied from this point of view, such as Chinese, Berber, Quechua, and Austronesian languages. The second part centers on French, a language whose early stages are comparatively richly documented and which therefore provides an important test case for hypotheses about the diachrony of negative marking. Representing, moreover, a variety of theoretical approaches, the volume will be of interest to researchers on negation, language change, and typology.
Table of Contents
The diachrony of negation: Introduction
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Jacqueline Visconti
1–12
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below]
On the relation between double clausal negation and negative concord
Lauren Van Alsenoy and Johan van der Auwera
13–46
The Jespersen cycles seen from Austronesian
Frens Vossen and Johan van der Auwera
47–82
The development of standard negation in Quechua: A reconstruction
Edith Pineda-Bernuy
83–130
Taiwanese Southern Min V2 negation: A historical perspective
Hui-Ling Yang
131–166
Berber negation in diachrony
Vermondo Brugnatelli
167–184
The grammaticalization of negative indefinites: The case of the temporal/aspectual n-words plus and mais in Medieval French
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
185–212
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below]
Evidence from a correspondence corpus for diachronic change in French indefinites 1450–1715
Richard P. Ingham and Amel Kallel
213–234
The continuity of the vernacular: The evolution of negative doubling in French
Pierre Larrivée
235–256
Index
257–258
URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.160
Leiden: Brill, 2009
The focus of this volume is on semantic and pragmatic change, its causes and mechanisms. The pape... more The focus of this volume is on semantic and pragmatic change, its causes and mechanisms. The papers gathered here offer both theoretical proposals of more general scope and in-depth studies of language-specific cases of meaning change in particular notional domains. The analyses include data from English, several Romance languages, German, Scandinavian languages, and Oceanic languages. Detailed case-studies covering central semantic domains, such as concession, evidentiality, intensification, modality, negation, scalarity, subjectivity, and temporality, allow the authors to test and refine current models of semantic change, by focusing, for instance, on the respective roles of speakers and hearers in the process and on the relationship between semantic and syntactic reanalysis. Key theoretical notions, such as presuppositions, paradigms, word order, and discourse status are revisited in a diachronic perspective to provide innovative accounts of causes and motivations for linguistic changes. A prominent theme is the evolution of procedural meanings of various kinds. Thus, several papers feature different types of pragmatic markers as their object of study, while others are concerned with items and constructions expressing modality, evidentiality, negation, and relational meanings. Closely related themes are: the interface between semantics and pragmatics/discourse, with figurative uses of language, rhetorical-argumentational strategies, discourse traditions, information structure, and the importance of dialogic contexts in change playing a salient role in several papers; the relationship between meaning change and processes such as grammaticalization, subjectification and pragmaticalization; and, the thorny issue of the categorization of linguistic items such as discourse markers or modal particles, evidentials or epistemic modals, to which the diachronic data are shown to contribute substantially. The volume will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in the fields of semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, grammaticalization, and historical linguistics.
Table of Contents:
Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics and Pragmatics
By: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Jacqueline Visconti
Pages: 1–19
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below]
APO: Avoid Pragmatic Overload
By: Regine Eckardt
Pages: 21–41
Diachronic Pathways and Pragmatic Strategies: Different Types of Pragmatic Particles from a Diachronic Point of View
By: Ulrich Detges and Richard Waltereit
Pages: 43–61
Context Sensitive Changes: The Development of the Affirmative Markers godt ‘good’ and vel ‘well’ in Danish
By: Eva Skafte Jensen
Pages: 63–79
Procatalepsis and the Etymology of Hedging and Boosting Particles
By: Kate Beeching
Pages: 81–105
Central/Peripheral Functions of allora and ‘Overall Pragmatic Configuration’: A Diachronic Perspective
By: Carla Bazzanella and Johanna Miecznikowski
Pages: 107–121
The Importance of Paradigms in Grammaticalisation: Spanish Digressive Markers por cierto and a propósito
By: Maria Estellés
Pages: 123–145
The Multiple Origin of es que in Modern Spanish: Diachronic Evidence
By: Magdalena Romera
Pages: 147–164
From Aspect/Mood Marker to Discourse Particle: Reconstructing Syntactic and Semantic Change
By: Bethwyn Evans
Pages: 165–187
The Grammaticalization Channels of Evidentials and Modal Particles in German: Integration in Textual Structures as a Common Feature
By: Gabriele Diewald, Marijana Kresic and Elena Smirnova
Pages: 189–209
Evidentiality, Epistemicity, and their Diachronic Connections to Non-Factuality
By: Mario Squartini
Pages: 211–226
The Grammaticalization of Negative Reinforcers in Old and Middle French: A Discourse–Functional Approach
By: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Pages: 227–251
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below]
A Roots Journey of a French Preposition
By: Silvia Adler and Maria Asnes
Pages: 253–272
The Grammaticalization of Privative Adjectives: The Case of Mere
By: Elke Gehweiler
Pages: 273–290
The Origin of Semantic Change in Discourse Tradition: A Case Study
By: Katerina Stathi
Pages: 291–302
URL: https://brill.com/abstract/title/23242
Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2006
Acta lingvistica hafniensia, 2006
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Explorations in the semantics-pragmatics interface
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Explorations in the semantics-pragmatics interface
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen & Ken Turner
Pages: 7-13
Semantic and pragmatic contributions to information status
Betty J. Birner
Pages: 14-32
Salience and anaphoric definite noun phrases
Klaus von Heusinger
Pages: 33-53
The unitary procedural semantics of the, this and that
Alex Klinge
Pages: 54-77
Semantic, pragmatic and lexical aspects of the measure phrase + adjective construction
M. Lynne Murphy
Pages: 78-100
Probability logic and conversation
Ken Turner
Pages: 101-136
The semantics of polyphony (and the pragmatics of realization)
Henning Nølke
Pages: 137-160
Grammaticalization and persistence phenomena in two hybrid discourse markers — la preuve and regarde
Corinne Rossari
Pages: 161-179
From pragmatics to semantics: Esto es in formulaic expressions
Salvador Pons Bordería
Pages: 180-206
The role of lexical semantics in semantic change
Jacqueline Visconti
Pages: 207-234
GCI theory and language change
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and & Richard Waltereit
Pages: 235-268
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below.]
Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 2005
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The evolution of pragmatic markers: Introduction
Maj-Britt Moseg... more Table of Contents
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The evolution of pragmatic markers: Introduction
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Corinne Rossari
177–187
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below.]
The journey of non-standard discourse markers in Quebec French: Networks based on exemplification
Diane Vincent
188–210
Tracing the origins of a set of discourse particles: Swedish particles of the type you know
Jan Lindström and Camilla Wide
211–236
On the origins of scalar particles in Italian
Jacqueline Visconti
237–261
Polar meaning and “expletive” negation in approximative adverbs: Spanish por poco (no)
Salvador Pons Bordería and Scott A. Schwenter
262–282
Identity and semantic change: Aspects of T/V usage in Cyprus
Marina Terkourafi
283–306
A retrospective on address in Portugal (1982–2002): Rethinking power and solidarity
Sandi Michele de Oliveira
307–323
Book Reviews
Ulrich Busse. Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus: Morpho-syntactic Variability of Second Person Pronouns
Reviewed by Terry Walker
324–328
Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker (eds). Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems
Reviewed by Norman F. Blake
328–332
Elvira Topalovic. Sprachwahl — Textsorte — Dialogstruktur. Zu Verhörprotokollen aus Hexenprozessen des 17. Jahrhunderts. ‘Language Choice — Text Type — Dialogue Structure. Interrogation Records of Seventeenth-Century Witch Trials’
Reviewed by Hans Ramge
332–336
Risto Hiltunen and Shinichiro Watanabe (eds). 2004. Approaches to Style and Discourse in English
Reviewed by Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky
336–343
Monika Becker. Familiar Dialogues in Englyssh and Frenche. Sprachliche Interaktion und ihre Vermittung in der frühe Neuzeit
Reviewed by Ulrich Busse
343–348
Contents of Volume 6
349–350
Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum, 2003
Odense: Odense Universitetsforlag, 2001
Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum, 1996
Papers by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen & Jacqueline Visconti, eds. "Manual of Discourse Markers in Romance", pp. 3-28. (Manuals of Romance Linguistics, vol. 37, Berlin: De Gruyter), 2024
In this editors’ introduction to the volume, we first seek to briefly place the study of discours... more In this editors’ introduction to the volume, we first seek to briefly place the study of discourse markers within the study of (Romance) linguistics more broadly, outlining some of the ways in which Romance linguists have been at the forefront of research in this field (§1). We then sketch the definition of DMs that we have been assuming as volume editors in §2. In the central §3, we give a more in-depth overview of the current state of the art regarding the diachronic rise of DMs, focusing in particular on the notion of (inter)subjectification and on the competing models that have been proposed to explain the evolution of markers, i.e. grammaticalization, pragmaticalization, constructionalization, and cooptation. Finally, §4 provides a rationale for the structure of the Manual along with summaries of the individual chapters.
Cyclic Change in Grammar and Discourse, eds. Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen & Richard Waltereit. (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics.) Oxford University Press., 2025
In this paper I address the diachronic evolution of pragmatic markers (PMs), with a focus on what... more In this paper I address the diachronic evolution of pragmatic markers (PMs), with a focus on what I call linear vs non-linear forms of pragmaticalization.
The pathway that has hitherto been most frequently attested in the rise of PMs involves linguistic items or constructions that originally have truth-conditional meaning and belong to « core » grammar, but which more or less gradually evolve non-truth-conditional, more (inter)subjective, uses that lie outside « core » grammar. This form of evolution is widely assumed to be regular, more or less unidirectional, and thus fundamentally linear in nature. Saliently, the study of such cases has been used to argue for a redefinition of the notion of grammaticalization.
The literature has, however, reported examples of markers that appear to have taken more complex, non-linear, paths at the semantic-pragmatic and/or the syntactic level. This paper argues that because of the existence of such non-linear paths, it is unhelpful to subsume the rise of PMs under the concept of grammaticalization. Instead, I argue that it is useful to draw on a distinction between grammaticalization, pragmaticalization, and lexicalization.
I propose a typology of forms of pragmaticalization, which – besides what I have called “linear” pragmaticalization above, which appears to be typical of the evolution of discourse markers – includes the following four non-linear (or in the case of feature spirals, quasi-non-linear) forms:
(i) Grammatico-pragmaticalization. This form of pragmaticalization will be argued to be characteristic of so-called modal particles, a subcategory of PMs that is only found in a (possibly relatively restricted) subset of languages.
(ii) Pragmaticalization-to-lexicalization spirals.
(iii) Micro-cycles of pragmaticalization. This category will be shown to comprise two subtypes, namely onomasiological cycles vs semasiological cycles.
(iv) Feature spirals.
The proposed typology is based on attested patterns of evolution prominently involving interaction between, on the one hand, two levels of meaning, and on the other hand, two levels of grammar.
Journal of Pragmatics, 2023
Mainstream theories of meaning in communication have traditionally centered the speaker's communi... more Mainstream theories of meaning in communication have traditionally centered the speaker's communicative intention. The centrality of Speaker's Meaning has, however, also been subjected to a great deal of criticism. We argue that it is time to take much more seriously the notion of Hearer's Meaning as distinct from Speaker's Meaning, even where the latter is conceived of as interactionally negotiated. Our principal contention is that, in terms of real-world effects, synchronically but also diachronically, Hearer's Meaning is, in fact, criterial. We propose a model of Hearer's Meaning as derived from seven sources-H's framing(s) of (different parts of) the speech event; H's assumptions about the conventional meanings of words and phrases; the sequential placement of the utterance; H's perception of S's identities; H's social relationship with S; H's social relationships with third parties; and finally, H's assumptions regarding S's intentions (if any)-and exemplify its application with the help of an extended Twitter thread. The contribution of each of these seven sources to Hearer's meaning is not necessarily fixed at the start of a given interactional episode and may vary according to the context of utterance. Moreover, the assessment of each of the sources may not be the same for all participants. As a result, meanings derived by different interactants need not be (near-)identical for them to judge a communicative exchange as having been successful. In other words, multiple parallel meanings are possible.
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The Structure of Modern Standard French will be a valuable resource for students of French at undergraduate level and beyond. It assumes some prior knowledge of French grammar but is designed to be accessible to those with no background in linguistics.
Table of Contents
Preface
List of abbreviations
Part I: Understanding French Sentence Structure
1: Simple sentences and their basic constituents
2: The internal structure of clause constituents
3: Complex sentence structures
4: Subordinate clauses
Part II: The Grammar of French Verbs
5: Finite verb forms: Mood
6: Finite verb forms: Tense
7: Finite verb forms: Aspect
8: Finite verb forms: Auxiliaries
9: Non-finite verb forms: The infinitive
10: Non-finite verb forms: The past participle
11: 11. Non-finite verb forms: The present participle and the gérondif
Part III: The Grammar of French Nominals
12: Definite and indefinite determiners
13: Adjectives within the noun phrase
14: Pronouns: Overview
15: Personal and reflexive pronouns
16: Neutral pronouns
17: Pronominal adverbs
18: Possessives and demonstratives
19: Interrogative and relative pronouns and adverbs
20: Indefinites
Part IV: The Grammar of French Particles
21: Prepositions
22: Adverbs, interjections, and coordinating conjunctions
Part V: The Grammar of French Clauses and Sentences
23: Negation and restriction
24: Word order
25: Voice
26: Dislocation, (pseudo-)clefts, and presentative constructions
Further reading
Appendix A: Overview of grammatical functions
Appendix B: Word classes in French
Appendix C: Subordinate clause types in French
Appendix D: Examples of sentence analyses to word level
Appendix E: Overview of the French tenses
URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-structure-of-modern-standard-french-9780198723745?cc=gb&lang=en&#
A corollary aim of the study is to propose an account of how and why erstwhile pragmatically-determined elements of meaning may, in the course of time, become semanticized. The nature, paths, and mechanisms of diachronic sense changes of the relevant type, as well as the motivations for them, are discussed in some detail.
The author combines insights from different sources, prominently frame-based semantics, historical pragmatics, and Peircean semiotics, to arrive at a model of linguistic meaning that is both synchronically and diachronically dynamic, hence capable of integrating structure and usage.
As a case study, the synchronic uses and diachronic evolution of the exceptionally polyfunctional French phasal adverbs déjà ('already'), encore ('still/yet'), toujours ('still'), and enfin ('finally') are analyzed in some detail, with particular attention being paid to the semantic vs pragmatic nature of the various uses of these items.
The book will be of interest to lexical semanticists, pragmaticians, historical linguists, functional/cognitive linguists, discourse analysts, and semioticians.
Contents
Preliminary Material
Pages: i–xii
1: Introduction
Pages: 1–8
2: Particles At The Lexical-Semantics/Pragmatics Interface: A Conceptual Framework
Pages: 9–51
3: A Framework For Describing The Diachronic Evolution Of Phasal Adverbs
Pages: 53–83
4: General Properties Of Phasal An Verbs Across Languages
Pages: 85–122
5: Data And Methodology
Pages: 123–132
6: Content-Level Uses Of The French Phasal An Verbs
Pages: 133–170
7: Context-Level Uses Of The French Phasal Adverbs
Pages: 171–220
8: Conclusion
Pages: 221–228
References
Pages: 229–242
Index
Pages: 243–248
URL: https://brill.com/abstract/title/23303
The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 (Theory) defines discourse particles as such, and gives a dynamic global approach to their description. Matters such as previous research on discourse particles, related categories of particles, instructional semantics, the difference between speech and writing, the delimitation of discourse units, competing approaches to discourse structure and to coherence, and methodology are discussed extensively.
Part 2 (Description) offers in-depth corpus-based analyses of six French discourse particles, namely bon, ben, eh bien, puis, donc, and alors, as used in non-elicted native-speaker interaction.
The book is of interest to linguists doing research in semantics, pragmatics and discourse studies.
Table of Contents
Transcription conventions
ix
Preface and acknowledgements
xi
Part I: Theory
Introduction
3
Previous studies
9
Particle research
37
Discourse markers
65
Spoken vs written language
91
Discourse units
113
Cohesion and coherence
171
Data and methodology
201
Part II: Description
Bon and ben
221
Eh bien
262
Puis
291
Donc and alors
321
Conclusion
357
Notes
365
References
385
Author Index
409
Subject Index
415
URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.53
Edited volumes by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
The first part of the book addresses foundational issues: What are discourse markers? What is their relationship to other types of pragmatic markers? The second part considers discourse markers at different levels of linguistic description, in particular: their grammatical status, their semantics and pragmatics, their prosodic features, their positioning within discourse units. The third part outlines different approaches to the study of discourse markers, namely contrastive studies, corpus linguistics, discourse traditions, and historical linguistics. The fourth part explores discourse markers at the interface with central topics in linguistics, such as politeness, social variation, language acquisition and psycholinguistic processing. The final part focuses on discourse markers in each of the major Romance languages, namely French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Romanian.
The volume will be of interest to researchers and students working in the field of Romance studies, general linguists, pragmaticians, discourse analysts, educationalists, and psychologists.
Introduction: The role of pragmatics in cyclic language change
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen | pp. 165–181
(NB! A preprint of this paper is available for download elsewhere on my profile.)
Articles
Functional expansions of temporal adverbs and discursive connectives: From Latin tum, tunc, dumque to Old Italian dunque
Chiara Fedriani and Piera Molinelli | pp. 182–207
Connectives and cyclicity: From the Latin temporal phrase illa hora to the Italian discourse marker allora
Chiara Ghezzi and Piera Molinelli | pp. 208–235
Semasiological cyclicity in the evolution of discourse markers: A case from Sicilian
Giulio Scivoletto | pp. 236–262
Parallels between the negative cycle and the rise of interrogative marking in French
Richard Waltereit | pp. 263–288
Future markers in Western Romance: Cyclic change, synchronic variation and diachronic competition
Ulrich Detges | pp. 289–314
Some reflections on semantic–pragmatic cycles
Salvador Pons Bordería and Ana Belén Llopis Cardona | pp. 315–346
This volume examines the way participants orient to aspects of their interactions with others as interpersonally sensitive across an array of languages and contemporary institutional settings. The individual chapters address interactional episodes where the participants signal that elements of the exchanges they are engaged in are problematic in terms of the vulnerability of their own and/or each other’s face and the role-identities assumed throughout the interactions.
The volume contributors examine a range of activities. In some of these, an orientation to interpersonal sensitivity is expected, such as citizens’ encounters with traffic police officers, negotiations with a line manager, political news interviews, or public inquiries. Other types of activity, such as service calls or guided tours, involve no such expectations in and of themselves. In some cases, the situated vulnerabilities studied here, whether expected or not, lead to deviation from the expected trajectory of the communicative event, with implications for goal achievement.
The collection of papers draws on diverse analytic perspectives. These include interactional discourse analysis, interactional linguistics, and conversation analysis. The diversity of languages and institutional environments examined will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in face-to-face interaction and serve to stimulate debate in the field of pragmatics and beyond.
Originally published as special issue of Pragmatics and Society 7:4 (2016).
Table of Contents
Introduction
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Rosina Márquez Reiter
1–5
Requests and counters in Russian traffic police officer-citizen encounters: Face and identity implications
Rosina Márquez Reiter, Kristina Ganchenko and Anna Charalambidou
7–33
Negotiating with the Boss: An inter- and cross-cultural perspective on problematic talk
Lars Fant and Annika Denke
35–63
Evading and resisting answering: An analysis of Mexican Spanish news interviews
Ariel Vázquez Carranza
65–89
Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses
James Murphy
91–113
When questioners count on recipients’ lack of knowledge: A recurring ‘question-answer’ format in guided tours
Anna Claudia Ticca and Véronique Traverso
115–133
When routine calls for information become interpersonally sensitive
Sara Orthaber and Rosina Márquez Reiter
135–160
Patterns of thanking in the closing section of UK service calls: Marking conversational macro-structure vs managing interpersonal relations
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
161–189 [This paper is available for download under "Articles" below.]
Index
191
507–511
Introduction
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below.]
512–539
Requests and counters in Russian traffic police officer-citizen encounters: Face and identity implications
Rosina Márquez Reiter, Kristina Ganchenko and Anna Charalambidou
540-569
Negotiating with the Boss: An inter- and cross-cultural perspective on problematic talk
Lars Fant and Annika Denke
570–594
Evading and resisting answering: An analysis of Mexican Spanish news interviews
Ariel Vázquez Carranza
595–617
Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses
James Murphy
618–637
When questioners count on recipients’ lack of knowledge: A recurring ‘question-answer’ format in guided tours
Anna Claudia Ticca and Véronique Traverso
638–663
When routine calls for information become interpersonally sensitive
Sara Orthaber and Rosina Márquez Reiter
664-692
Patterns of thanking in the closing section of UK service calls: Marking conversational macro-structure vs managing interpersonal relations
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below.]
URL: https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/ps.7.4/main
Table of Contents
The diachrony of negation: Introduction
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Jacqueline Visconti
1–12
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below]
On the relation between double clausal negation and negative concord
Lauren Van Alsenoy and Johan van der Auwera
13–46
The Jespersen cycles seen from Austronesian
Frens Vossen and Johan van der Auwera
47–82
The development of standard negation in Quechua: A reconstruction
Edith Pineda-Bernuy
83–130
Taiwanese Southern Min V2 negation: A historical perspective
Hui-Ling Yang
131–166
Berber negation in diachrony
Vermondo Brugnatelli
167–184
The grammaticalization of negative indefinites: The case of the temporal/aspectual n-words plus and mais in Medieval French
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
185–212
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below]
Evidence from a correspondence corpus for diachronic change in French indefinites 1450–1715
Richard P. Ingham and Amel Kallel
213–234
The continuity of the vernacular: The evolution of negative doubling in French
Pierre Larrivée
235–256
Index
257–258
URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.160
Table of Contents:
Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics and Pragmatics
By: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Jacqueline Visconti
Pages: 1–19
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below]
APO: Avoid Pragmatic Overload
By: Regine Eckardt
Pages: 21–41
Diachronic Pathways and Pragmatic Strategies: Different Types of Pragmatic Particles from a Diachronic Point of View
By: Ulrich Detges and Richard Waltereit
Pages: 43–61
Context Sensitive Changes: The Development of the Affirmative Markers godt ‘good’ and vel ‘well’ in Danish
By: Eva Skafte Jensen
Pages: 63–79
Procatalepsis and the Etymology of Hedging and Boosting Particles
By: Kate Beeching
Pages: 81–105
Central/Peripheral Functions of allora and ‘Overall Pragmatic Configuration’: A Diachronic Perspective
By: Carla Bazzanella and Johanna Miecznikowski
Pages: 107–121
The Importance of Paradigms in Grammaticalisation: Spanish Digressive Markers por cierto and a propósito
By: Maria Estellés
Pages: 123–145
The Multiple Origin of es que in Modern Spanish: Diachronic Evidence
By: Magdalena Romera
Pages: 147–164
From Aspect/Mood Marker to Discourse Particle: Reconstructing Syntactic and Semantic Change
By: Bethwyn Evans
Pages: 165–187
The Grammaticalization Channels of Evidentials and Modal Particles in German: Integration in Textual Structures as a Common Feature
By: Gabriele Diewald, Marijana Kresic and Elena Smirnova
Pages: 189–209
Evidentiality, Epistemicity, and their Diachronic Connections to Non-Factuality
By: Mario Squartini
Pages: 211–226
The Grammaticalization of Negative Reinforcers in Old and Middle French: A Discourse–Functional Approach
By: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Pages: 227–251
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below]
A Roots Journey of a French Preposition
By: Silvia Adler and Maria Asnes
Pages: 253–272
The Grammaticalization of Privative Adjectives: The Case of Mere
By: Elke Gehweiler
Pages: 273–290
The Origin of Semantic Change in Discourse Tradition: A Case Study
By: Katerina Stathi
Pages: 291–302
URL: https://brill.com/abstract/title/23242
Explorations in the semantics-pragmatics interface
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen & Ken Turner
Pages: 7-13
Semantic and pragmatic contributions to information status
Betty J. Birner
Pages: 14-32
Salience and anaphoric definite noun phrases
Klaus von Heusinger
Pages: 33-53
The unitary procedural semantics of the, this and that
Alex Klinge
Pages: 54-77
Semantic, pragmatic and lexical aspects of the measure phrase + adjective construction
M. Lynne Murphy
Pages: 78-100
Probability logic and conversation
Ken Turner
Pages: 101-136
The semantics of polyphony (and the pragmatics of realization)
Henning Nølke
Pages: 137-160
Grammaticalization and persistence phenomena in two hybrid discourse markers — la preuve and regarde
Corinne Rossari
Pages: 161-179
From pragmatics to semantics: Esto es in formulaic expressions
Salvador Pons Bordería
Pages: 180-206
The role of lexical semantics in semantic change
Jacqueline Visconti
Pages: 207-234
GCI theory and language change
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and & Richard Waltereit
Pages: 235-268
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below.]
Articles
The evolution of pragmatic markers: Introduction
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Corinne Rossari
177–187
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below.]
The journey of non-standard discourse markers in Quebec French: Networks based on exemplification
Diane Vincent
188–210
Tracing the origins of a set of discourse particles: Swedish particles of the type you know
Jan Lindström and Camilla Wide
211–236
On the origins of scalar particles in Italian
Jacqueline Visconti
237–261
Polar meaning and “expletive” negation in approximative adverbs: Spanish por poco (no)
Salvador Pons Bordería and Scott A. Schwenter
262–282
Identity and semantic change: Aspects of T/V usage in Cyprus
Marina Terkourafi
283–306
A retrospective on address in Portugal (1982–2002): Rethinking power and solidarity
Sandi Michele de Oliveira
307–323
Book Reviews
Ulrich Busse. Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus: Morpho-syntactic Variability of Second Person Pronouns
Reviewed by Terry Walker
324–328
Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker (eds). Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems
Reviewed by Norman F. Blake
328–332
Elvira Topalovic. Sprachwahl — Textsorte — Dialogstruktur. Zu Verhörprotokollen aus Hexenprozessen des 17. Jahrhunderts. ‘Language Choice — Text Type — Dialogue Structure. Interrogation Records of Seventeenth-Century Witch Trials’
Reviewed by Hans Ramge
332–336
Risto Hiltunen and Shinichiro Watanabe (eds). 2004. Approaches to Style and Discourse in English
Reviewed by Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky
336–343
Monika Becker. Familiar Dialogues in Englyssh and Frenche. Sprachliche Interaktion und ihre Vermittung in der frühe Neuzeit
Reviewed by Ulrich Busse
343–348
Contents of Volume 6
349–350
Papers by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
The pathway that has hitherto been most frequently attested in the rise of PMs involves linguistic items or constructions that originally have truth-conditional meaning and belong to « core » grammar, but which more or less gradually evolve non-truth-conditional, more (inter)subjective, uses that lie outside « core » grammar. This form of evolution is widely assumed to be regular, more or less unidirectional, and thus fundamentally linear in nature. Saliently, the study of such cases has been used to argue for a redefinition of the notion of grammaticalization.
The literature has, however, reported examples of markers that appear to have taken more complex, non-linear, paths at the semantic-pragmatic and/or the syntactic level. This paper argues that because of the existence of such non-linear paths, it is unhelpful to subsume the rise of PMs under the concept of grammaticalization. Instead, I argue that it is useful to draw on a distinction between grammaticalization, pragmaticalization, and lexicalization.
I propose a typology of forms of pragmaticalization, which – besides what I have called “linear” pragmaticalization above, which appears to be typical of the evolution of discourse markers – includes the following four non-linear (or in the case of feature spirals, quasi-non-linear) forms:
(i) Grammatico-pragmaticalization. This form of pragmaticalization will be argued to be characteristic of so-called modal particles, a subcategory of PMs that is only found in a (possibly relatively restricted) subset of languages.
(ii) Pragmaticalization-to-lexicalization spirals.
(iii) Micro-cycles of pragmaticalization. This category will be shown to comprise two subtypes, namely onomasiological cycles vs semasiological cycles.
(iv) Feature spirals.
The proposed typology is based on attested patterns of evolution prominently involving interaction between, on the one hand, two levels of meaning, and on the other hand, two levels of grammar.
The Structure of Modern Standard French will be a valuable resource for students of French at undergraduate level and beyond. It assumes some prior knowledge of French grammar but is designed to be accessible to those with no background in linguistics.
Table of Contents
Preface
List of abbreviations
Part I: Understanding French Sentence Structure
1: Simple sentences and their basic constituents
2: The internal structure of clause constituents
3: Complex sentence structures
4: Subordinate clauses
Part II: The Grammar of French Verbs
5: Finite verb forms: Mood
6: Finite verb forms: Tense
7: Finite verb forms: Aspect
8: Finite verb forms: Auxiliaries
9: Non-finite verb forms: The infinitive
10: Non-finite verb forms: The past participle
11: 11. Non-finite verb forms: The present participle and the gérondif
Part III: The Grammar of French Nominals
12: Definite and indefinite determiners
13: Adjectives within the noun phrase
14: Pronouns: Overview
15: Personal and reflexive pronouns
16: Neutral pronouns
17: Pronominal adverbs
18: Possessives and demonstratives
19: Interrogative and relative pronouns and adverbs
20: Indefinites
Part IV: The Grammar of French Particles
21: Prepositions
22: Adverbs, interjections, and coordinating conjunctions
Part V: The Grammar of French Clauses and Sentences
23: Negation and restriction
24: Word order
25: Voice
26: Dislocation, (pseudo-)clefts, and presentative constructions
Further reading
Appendix A: Overview of grammatical functions
Appendix B: Word classes in French
Appendix C: Subordinate clause types in French
Appendix D: Examples of sentence analyses to word level
Appendix E: Overview of the French tenses
URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-structure-of-modern-standard-french-9780198723745?cc=gb&lang=en&#
A corollary aim of the study is to propose an account of how and why erstwhile pragmatically-determined elements of meaning may, in the course of time, become semanticized. The nature, paths, and mechanisms of diachronic sense changes of the relevant type, as well as the motivations for them, are discussed in some detail.
The author combines insights from different sources, prominently frame-based semantics, historical pragmatics, and Peircean semiotics, to arrive at a model of linguistic meaning that is both synchronically and diachronically dynamic, hence capable of integrating structure and usage.
As a case study, the synchronic uses and diachronic evolution of the exceptionally polyfunctional French phasal adverbs déjà ('already'), encore ('still/yet'), toujours ('still'), and enfin ('finally') are analyzed in some detail, with particular attention being paid to the semantic vs pragmatic nature of the various uses of these items.
The book will be of interest to lexical semanticists, pragmaticians, historical linguists, functional/cognitive linguists, discourse analysts, and semioticians.
Contents
Preliminary Material
Pages: i–xii
1: Introduction
Pages: 1–8
2: Particles At The Lexical-Semantics/Pragmatics Interface: A Conceptual Framework
Pages: 9–51
3: A Framework For Describing The Diachronic Evolution Of Phasal Adverbs
Pages: 53–83
4: General Properties Of Phasal An Verbs Across Languages
Pages: 85–122
5: Data And Methodology
Pages: 123–132
6: Content-Level Uses Of The French Phasal An Verbs
Pages: 133–170
7: Context-Level Uses Of The French Phasal Adverbs
Pages: 171–220
8: Conclusion
Pages: 221–228
References
Pages: 229–242
Index
Pages: 243–248
URL: https://brill.com/abstract/title/23303
The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 (Theory) defines discourse particles as such, and gives a dynamic global approach to their description. Matters such as previous research on discourse particles, related categories of particles, instructional semantics, the difference between speech and writing, the delimitation of discourse units, competing approaches to discourse structure and to coherence, and methodology are discussed extensively.
Part 2 (Description) offers in-depth corpus-based analyses of six French discourse particles, namely bon, ben, eh bien, puis, donc, and alors, as used in non-elicted native-speaker interaction.
The book is of interest to linguists doing research in semantics, pragmatics and discourse studies.
Table of Contents
Transcription conventions
ix
Preface and acknowledgements
xi
Part I: Theory
Introduction
3
Previous studies
9
Particle research
37
Discourse markers
65
Spoken vs written language
91
Discourse units
113
Cohesion and coherence
171
Data and methodology
201
Part II: Description
Bon and ben
221
Eh bien
262
Puis
291
Donc and alors
321
Conclusion
357
Notes
365
References
385
Author Index
409
Subject Index
415
URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.53
The first part of the book addresses foundational issues: What are discourse markers? What is their relationship to other types of pragmatic markers? The second part considers discourse markers at different levels of linguistic description, in particular: their grammatical status, their semantics and pragmatics, their prosodic features, their positioning within discourse units. The third part outlines different approaches to the study of discourse markers, namely contrastive studies, corpus linguistics, discourse traditions, and historical linguistics. The fourth part explores discourse markers at the interface with central topics in linguistics, such as politeness, social variation, language acquisition and psycholinguistic processing. The final part focuses on discourse markers in each of the major Romance languages, namely French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Romanian.
The volume will be of interest to researchers and students working in the field of Romance studies, general linguists, pragmaticians, discourse analysts, educationalists, and psychologists.
Introduction: The role of pragmatics in cyclic language change
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen | pp. 165–181
(NB! A preprint of this paper is available for download elsewhere on my profile.)
Articles
Functional expansions of temporal adverbs and discursive connectives: From Latin tum, tunc, dumque to Old Italian dunque
Chiara Fedriani and Piera Molinelli | pp. 182–207
Connectives and cyclicity: From the Latin temporal phrase illa hora to the Italian discourse marker allora
Chiara Ghezzi and Piera Molinelli | pp. 208–235
Semasiological cyclicity in the evolution of discourse markers: A case from Sicilian
Giulio Scivoletto | pp. 236–262
Parallels between the negative cycle and the rise of interrogative marking in French
Richard Waltereit | pp. 263–288
Future markers in Western Romance: Cyclic change, synchronic variation and diachronic competition
Ulrich Detges | pp. 289–314
Some reflections on semantic–pragmatic cycles
Salvador Pons Bordería and Ana Belén Llopis Cardona | pp. 315–346
This volume examines the way participants orient to aspects of their interactions with others as interpersonally sensitive across an array of languages and contemporary institutional settings. The individual chapters address interactional episodes where the participants signal that elements of the exchanges they are engaged in are problematic in terms of the vulnerability of their own and/or each other’s face and the role-identities assumed throughout the interactions.
The volume contributors examine a range of activities. In some of these, an orientation to interpersonal sensitivity is expected, such as citizens’ encounters with traffic police officers, negotiations with a line manager, political news interviews, or public inquiries. Other types of activity, such as service calls or guided tours, involve no such expectations in and of themselves. In some cases, the situated vulnerabilities studied here, whether expected or not, lead to deviation from the expected trajectory of the communicative event, with implications for goal achievement.
The collection of papers draws on diverse analytic perspectives. These include interactional discourse analysis, interactional linguistics, and conversation analysis. The diversity of languages and institutional environments examined will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in face-to-face interaction and serve to stimulate debate in the field of pragmatics and beyond.
Originally published as special issue of Pragmatics and Society 7:4 (2016).
Table of Contents
Introduction
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Rosina Márquez Reiter
1–5
Requests and counters in Russian traffic police officer-citizen encounters: Face and identity implications
Rosina Márquez Reiter, Kristina Ganchenko and Anna Charalambidou
7–33
Negotiating with the Boss: An inter- and cross-cultural perspective on problematic talk
Lars Fant and Annika Denke
35–63
Evading and resisting answering: An analysis of Mexican Spanish news interviews
Ariel Vázquez Carranza
65–89
Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses
James Murphy
91–113
When questioners count on recipients’ lack of knowledge: A recurring ‘question-answer’ format in guided tours
Anna Claudia Ticca and Véronique Traverso
115–133
When routine calls for information become interpersonally sensitive
Sara Orthaber and Rosina Márquez Reiter
135–160
Patterns of thanking in the closing section of UK service calls: Marking conversational macro-structure vs managing interpersonal relations
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
161–189 [This paper is available for download under "Articles" below.]
Index
191
507–511
Introduction
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below.]
512–539
Requests and counters in Russian traffic police officer-citizen encounters: Face and identity implications
Rosina Márquez Reiter, Kristina Ganchenko and Anna Charalambidou
540-569
Negotiating with the Boss: An inter- and cross-cultural perspective on problematic talk
Lars Fant and Annika Denke
570–594
Evading and resisting answering: An analysis of Mexican Spanish news interviews
Ariel Vázquez Carranza
595–617
Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses
James Murphy
618–637
When questioners count on recipients’ lack of knowledge: A recurring ‘question-answer’ format in guided tours
Anna Claudia Ticca and Véronique Traverso
638–663
When routine calls for information become interpersonally sensitive
Sara Orthaber and Rosina Márquez Reiter
664-692
Patterns of thanking in the closing section of UK service calls: Marking conversational macro-structure vs managing interpersonal relations
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below.]
URL: https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/ps.7.4/main
Table of Contents
The diachrony of negation: Introduction
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Jacqueline Visconti
1–12
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below]
On the relation between double clausal negation and negative concord
Lauren Van Alsenoy and Johan van der Auwera
13–46
The Jespersen cycles seen from Austronesian
Frens Vossen and Johan van der Auwera
47–82
The development of standard negation in Quechua: A reconstruction
Edith Pineda-Bernuy
83–130
Taiwanese Southern Min V2 negation: A historical perspective
Hui-Ling Yang
131–166
Berber negation in diachrony
Vermondo Brugnatelli
167–184
The grammaticalization of negative indefinites: The case of the temporal/aspectual n-words plus and mais in Medieval French
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
185–212
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below]
Evidence from a correspondence corpus for diachronic change in French indefinites 1450–1715
Richard P. Ingham and Amel Kallel
213–234
The continuity of the vernacular: The evolution of negative doubling in French
Pierre Larrivée
235–256
Index
257–258
URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.160
Table of Contents:
Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics and Pragmatics
By: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Jacqueline Visconti
Pages: 1–19
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below]
APO: Avoid Pragmatic Overload
By: Regine Eckardt
Pages: 21–41
Diachronic Pathways and Pragmatic Strategies: Different Types of Pragmatic Particles from a Diachronic Point of View
By: Ulrich Detges and Richard Waltereit
Pages: 43–61
Context Sensitive Changes: The Development of the Affirmative Markers godt ‘good’ and vel ‘well’ in Danish
By: Eva Skafte Jensen
Pages: 63–79
Procatalepsis and the Etymology of Hedging and Boosting Particles
By: Kate Beeching
Pages: 81–105
Central/Peripheral Functions of allora and ‘Overall Pragmatic Configuration’: A Diachronic Perspective
By: Carla Bazzanella and Johanna Miecznikowski
Pages: 107–121
The Importance of Paradigms in Grammaticalisation: Spanish Digressive Markers por cierto and a propósito
By: Maria Estellés
Pages: 123–145
The Multiple Origin of es que in Modern Spanish: Diachronic Evidence
By: Magdalena Romera
Pages: 147–164
From Aspect/Mood Marker to Discourse Particle: Reconstructing Syntactic and Semantic Change
By: Bethwyn Evans
Pages: 165–187
The Grammaticalization Channels of Evidentials and Modal Particles in German: Integration in Textual Structures as a Common Feature
By: Gabriele Diewald, Marijana Kresic and Elena Smirnova
Pages: 189–209
Evidentiality, Epistemicity, and their Diachronic Connections to Non-Factuality
By: Mario Squartini
Pages: 211–226
The Grammaticalization of Negative Reinforcers in Old and Middle French: A Discourse–Functional Approach
By: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
Pages: 227–251
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below]
A Roots Journey of a French Preposition
By: Silvia Adler and Maria Asnes
Pages: 253–272
The Grammaticalization of Privative Adjectives: The Case of Mere
By: Elke Gehweiler
Pages: 273–290
The Origin of Semantic Change in Discourse Tradition: A Case Study
By: Katerina Stathi
Pages: 291–302
URL: https://brill.com/abstract/title/23242
Explorations in the semantics-pragmatics interface
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen & Ken Turner
Pages: 7-13
Semantic and pragmatic contributions to information status
Betty J. Birner
Pages: 14-32
Salience and anaphoric definite noun phrases
Klaus von Heusinger
Pages: 33-53
The unitary procedural semantics of the, this and that
Alex Klinge
Pages: 54-77
Semantic, pragmatic and lexical aspects of the measure phrase + adjective construction
M. Lynne Murphy
Pages: 78-100
Probability logic and conversation
Ken Turner
Pages: 101-136
The semantics of polyphony (and the pragmatics of realization)
Henning Nølke
Pages: 137-160
Grammaticalization and persistence phenomena in two hybrid discourse markers — la preuve and regarde
Corinne Rossari
Pages: 161-179
From pragmatics to semantics: Esto es in formulaic expressions
Salvador Pons Bordería
Pages: 180-206
The role of lexical semantics in semantic change
Jacqueline Visconti
Pages: 207-234
GCI theory and language change
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and & Richard Waltereit
Pages: 235-268
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below.]
Articles
The evolution of pragmatic markers: Introduction
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Corinne Rossari
177–187
[This paper is available for download under "Articles" below.]
The journey of non-standard discourse markers in Quebec French: Networks based on exemplification
Diane Vincent
188–210
Tracing the origins of a set of discourse particles: Swedish particles of the type you know
Jan Lindström and Camilla Wide
211–236
On the origins of scalar particles in Italian
Jacqueline Visconti
237–261
Polar meaning and “expletive” negation in approximative adverbs: Spanish por poco (no)
Salvador Pons Bordería and Scott A. Schwenter
262–282
Identity and semantic change: Aspects of T/V usage in Cyprus
Marina Terkourafi
283–306
A retrospective on address in Portugal (1982–2002): Rethinking power and solidarity
Sandi Michele de Oliveira
307–323
Book Reviews
Ulrich Busse. Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus: Morpho-syntactic Variability of Second Person Pronouns
Reviewed by Terry Walker
324–328
Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker (eds). Diachronic Perspectives on Address Term Systems
Reviewed by Norman F. Blake
328–332
Elvira Topalovic. Sprachwahl — Textsorte — Dialogstruktur. Zu Verhörprotokollen aus Hexenprozessen des 17. Jahrhunderts. ‘Language Choice — Text Type — Dialogue Structure. Interrogation Records of Seventeenth-Century Witch Trials’
Reviewed by Hans Ramge
332–336
Risto Hiltunen and Shinichiro Watanabe (eds). 2004. Approaches to Style and Discourse in English
Reviewed by Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky
336–343
Monika Becker. Familiar Dialogues in Englyssh and Frenche. Sprachliche Interaktion und ihre Vermittung in der frühe Neuzeit
Reviewed by Ulrich Busse
343–348
Contents of Volume 6
349–350
The pathway that has hitherto been most frequently attested in the rise of PMs involves linguistic items or constructions that originally have truth-conditional meaning and belong to « core » grammar, but which more or less gradually evolve non-truth-conditional, more (inter)subjective, uses that lie outside « core » grammar. This form of evolution is widely assumed to be regular, more or less unidirectional, and thus fundamentally linear in nature. Saliently, the study of such cases has been used to argue for a redefinition of the notion of grammaticalization.
The literature has, however, reported examples of markers that appear to have taken more complex, non-linear, paths at the semantic-pragmatic and/or the syntactic level. This paper argues that because of the existence of such non-linear paths, it is unhelpful to subsume the rise of PMs under the concept of grammaticalization. Instead, I argue that it is useful to draw on a distinction between grammaticalization, pragmaticalization, and lexicalization.
I propose a typology of forms of pragmaticalization, which – besides what I have called “linear” pragmaticalization above, which appears to be typical of the evolution of discourse markers – includes the following four non-linear (or in the case of feature spirals, quasi-non-linear) forms:
(i) Grammatico-pragmaticalization. This form of pragmaticalization will be argued to be characteristic of so-called modal particles, a subcategory of PMs that is only found in a (possibly relatively restricted) subset of languages.
(ii) Pragmaticalization-to-lexicalization spirals.
(iii) Micro-cycles of pragmaticalization. This category will be shown to comprise two subtypes, namely onomasiological cycles vs semasiological cycles.
(iv) Feature spirals.
The proposed typology is based on attested patterns of evolution prominently involving interaction between, on the one hand, two levels of meaning, and on the other hand, two levels of grammar.
(1) Adverbe temporel de sens comparatif > marqueur pragmatique exprimant une préférence de la part d’un référent discursif > marqueur de reformulation non paraphrastique
Si les deux marqueurs sont attestés depuis l’ancien français, leurs évolutions respectives sont cependant décalées dans le temps, de façon assez marquée pour qu’il soit permis de penser qu’ensemble elles constituent ce que Hansen (2014, 2018a/b) appelle un « cycle sémantico-pragmatique » et Ghezzi & Molinelli (2014), un « cycle de pragmaticalisation ».
Following a brief discussion of similarities and possible relations between this type of development and the well-known cycles of grammaticalization, such as the negative cycle (Jespersen 1917), I propose a distinction between two broad types of semantic/pragmatic cycles, corresponding to the two basic perspectives from which linguistic meaning may be studied, semasiology vs onomasiology. Each of these two types is in turn illustrated by two specific case studies concerning the evolution of pragmatic markers from Latin to various Romance languages (French, Catalan, Italian).
I conclude that the existence of semantic/pragmatic cycles supports the applicability of the Uniformitarian Principle (Labov 1994) in the study of diachronic meaning change, and call for further research on a range of questions relating to the nature, as well as to the descriptive and theoretical importance, of semantic/pragmatic cycles.