The Expressivity of Grammar
Grammatical Devices Expressing Emotion across Time
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Erschienen am 30. August 2011
VII, 253 Seiten
978-3-11-080017-3 (ISBN)
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Inhalt
- Intro
- Chapter 1. Communication, emotions and expressivity
- 1.1. Aim and scope
- 1.2. Contextualizations
- 1.3. Leading concepts
- Chapter 2. The so-called possessive dative
- 2.1. Plan of discussion
- 2.2. Introduction
- 2.3. Dative and possession
- 2.4. Meaning surplus
- 2.5. Synopsis
- Chapter 3 The ethic dative
- 3.1. Plan of discussion
- 3.2. The state of the art
- 3.3. The ethic dative as speaker's attachment
- 3.4. Ethic dative versus benefactive dative?
- 3.5. Synopsis
- Chapter 4. The expanded form
- 4.1. Plan of discussion
- 4.2. The Modern English form and its function
- 4.3. The expanded form in early usage: Bede's Ecclesiastical History
- 4.4. Challenge and reconciliation
- 4.5. Glancing at Modern English anew
- 4.6. Synopsis
- Chapter 5. The present perfect
- 5.1. Plan of discussion
- 5.2. Orientation marks
- 5.3. Against tense-based views
- 5.4. Toward a non-temporal view of the present perfect
- 5.5. Time frames
- 5.6. The use of the present perfect in the history of English
- 5.7. Synopsis
- Chapter 6. The periphrastic do
- 6.1. Plan of discussion
- 6.2. Introduction
- 6.3. The do-periphrasis in affirmative statements
- 6.4. The do-periphrasis in negations and questions
- 6.5. Case study: A Supplicacyon for the Beggers
- 6.6. The development of the do-periphrasis toward present-day English usage
- 6.7. Synopsis
- Chapter 7. The get-passive
- 7.1. Plan of discussion
- 7.2. Main-stream concepts and alternatives
- 7.3. What's passive about get + V-ed?
- 7.4. Instrumental condition of the get-passive
- 7.5. Propositional condition of the get-passive
- 7.6. Attachment
- 7.7. Case study: S. Terkel, Working. People talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do
- 7.8. Synopsis
- Chapter 8. Putting the results in perspective: Grammar and the Self
- 8.1. The major results
- 8.2. Subjectification
- 8.3. A cultural-historical frame
- Notes
- References
- Index of authors
- Index of subjects
