Metalinguistic Operators with Reference to French
Published on 1. February 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
169 pages
978-3-906757-82-7 (ISBN)
Description
This study focuses primarily on the interface between Anscombre and Ducrot's Argumentation Theory and certain types of expression here defined as metalinguistic operators. These operators, as construed by Argumentation Theory, are directly linked to various issues of particular relevance to Linguistic Theory: semantic constraints on context, the nature of procedural meaning, objective versus subjective aspects of meaning, the relationship between cohesion and coherence in discourse, and the link between linguistic and cognitive function.
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Person
The Author: T. Nyan is lecturer in French Linguistics and Pragmatics at the University of Manchester. Her research background includes teamwork on a number of research projects on French pragmatic expressions with Oswald Ducrot, at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, a research post in Pragmatics at the Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, also in Paris, and a research fellowship in Philosophy of Language and of Mind at Pembroke College, Oxford. She has published extensively in this area of study.
Content
Contents: What are metalinguistic operators? - Anscombre and Ducrot's Argumentation Theory - Argumentation Theory, Cognitive Linguistics and Speech Act Theory - Argumentation Theory and metalinguistic operators - Case study 1: maintenant - Case study 2: ceci dit.