Cooptation as a discourse strategy

Heine, Bernd; Kaltenböck, Gunther; Kuteva, Tania; Long, Haiping

doi:10.1515/ling-2017-0012

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“…A third model of language change that might account for the development of English sentence adverbs is thetical grammar. It is often claimed that disjunct sentence adverbs are 'syntactically detached' or 'outside the syntax' and it is in this perspective that thetical grammar (Kaltenböck et al 2011, Heine et al 2017) offers a possible model for the analysis of evaluative sentence adverbs. A thetical is characterized by a mixture of structural, prosodic and semantic properties.…”

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Speaker stance and evaluative -ly adverbs in the Modern English period

Lewis

2020

Language Sciences

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Present-day English makes major use of adverbs for the expression of speaker stance, following what has been described as the adverbialization of speaker attitude. Two adverbial constructions have particular stance-expressing functions: those with an adverb that modifies a clause or sentence (SAdv) and those with an adverb that modifies an adjective phrase (AdjAdv). The emergence of modal and evaluative SAdvs from verb-phrase-modifying adverbs (VPAdvs) via inferencing and scope expansion has been well documented. There is a large literature on the diachronic development of present-day English intensifiers such as absolutely or really. Much less attention has been paid to the evaluative function of many AdjAdvs. This paper focuses on the relationship between extra-clausal stance -ly adverbs of the SAdv construction and their intraclausal counterparts of the AdjAdv construction. It is argued that -ly adverbial modification of adjectives cannot be reduced to intensification. It has become a favoured site for the expression of speaker evaluation, contributing to increase in information compression. The evaluative AdjAdv and SAdv constructions are seen to share a semantic schema, and by hypothesis belong to a single more abstract constructional schema. While earlier types appear to have evolved from circumstance adverbs, later types may have been coined by analogy in a cycle of increasing productivity.

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Speaker stance and evaluative -ly adverbs in the Modern English period

Lewis

2020

Language Sciences

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“…(Vine, 2000: 379) Despite these challenges, ICE corpora have regularly been used to study aspects of pragmatics across WEs, such as discourse particles (Lange 2009) or invariant isn't it (Parviainen 2016). ICE corpora are also used to study pragmatic variation in individual varieties, as in Wong ( 2010), Heine et al (2017), and Unuabonah and Gut (2018). These studies can serve as starting points for cross-varietal comparisons.…”

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Corpus-Based Approaches to World Englishes

Hundt¹,

Schreier²,

Schneider³

2019

The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes

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The chapter provides an overview of the developments in synchronic and diachronic corpuslinguistic research into World Englishes (WE), detailing methodological concerns such as sampling frames, representativeness, corpus size, and statistical modelling on the one hand and the broadening scope of corpus-based research from ENL to ESL and EFL varieties on the other hand. It also surveys areas in which corpus-evidence has been applied in the study of WE (e.g. as a testing bed for models of WEs, for the study of language contact, typology and change or as a source of evidence for sociolinguistic and pragmatic variation), providing ample illustration from seminal research papers and recent studies in the field.

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“…Evans 2007: 374;Heine et al 2016). Another concept that has been proposed for the creation of insubordination is that of 'co-optation' (Kaltenböck et al 2011;Heine et al 2017). It denotes a cognitive operation which is supposed to precede the constructionalization of insubordinate clauses (Heine et al 2016), and so-called theticals more generally (for further discussion of the diachrony of insubordination see Section 5).…”

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Insubordination: Central issues and open questions

Beijering¹,

Kaltenböck²,

Sansiñena³

2019

Insubordination

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The past decade has witnessed an ever-increasing interest in insubordination and related phenomena, particularly since the appearance of Evans' ( 2007) seminal paper 'Insubordination and its uses'. Since then, numerous studies have been published on various types of insubordinate constructions in a wide variety of typologically different languages from different analytical perspectives (see especially Evans and Watanabe 2016a and references therein).What makes insubordination so intriguing is that it presents a challenge for traditional grammatical frameworks owing to its ambivalent, Janus-like appearance, which combines subordinate structure with main clause function. This dual nature is neatly summarized in Evans's definition, which has by now become accepted currency in the field: "the conventionalized main clause use of what, on prima facie grounds, appear to be formally subordinate clauses" (Evans 2007: 367). 1 An insubordinate clause thus has the appearance of a subordinate clause, but has been reanalysed as a main clause. It is in this subordinate form that insubordination differs from nonsubordination (de Vries e.g. 2007), which is described as a strategy of paratactic text planning that includes parenthesis, apposition, coordination, juxtaposition and hedging. 2 Some illustrative examples of insubordination are given in ( 1) to (4).(1) ENGLISH (ICE-GB:s1a-089-159)If you'll just come next door.() SWEDISH (D'Hertefelt 2015: 23, IC) https://issuu.com/danielheiniemi/docs/o4u05_tr/19) Att du aldrig kan passa tider! COMP you never can.PRS watch.INF times 'Why can't you ever keep track of the time!' (lit.: That you never can watch the time!) (3) SPANISH (MABPE2-01b, COLA M) Juan (.) que v-a a llov-er VOC COMP go-PRS.IND.3SG to rain-INF 'John, [QUE] it's going to rain. (..) […]' 1 This is a refined version of an earlier definition given in Evans (1988: 255), which identified insubordination as "the use of a formally subordinate clause type as a main clause". 2 De Vries defines nonsubordination as "parataxis in the broad sense. It means the equipollent ranking of clauses or constituents: if β is paratactically construed with respect to α, β is not subordinated to α, and β does not restrict the meaning of α; rather it adds information to α." (de Vries 2007: 203; n.d.); cf. in this context also Heine et al.'s (2016) notion of "theticals".(4) JAPANESE (Evans 2009:1) Are wo mi-te ! that ACC look-CNJ 'Look at that!'As can be seen from the examples, insubordinate clauses have all the formal cues of subordinate clauses. These are, for instance, subordinators, infinitive, participal or subjunctive inflections on the verbs, subordinate clause word order, depending on the language-specific markers of subordination. What is absent, however, is a matrix clause. Instead, they areat least in their prototypical formsstand-alone structures as a result of their reanalysis over time as conventionalized independent constructions. Insubordination thus has an inherent diachronic side to it. Insubordinate clauses may look like subord...

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Cooptation as a discourse strategy

Cited by 88 publications

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Speaker stance and evaluative -ly adverbs in the Modern English period

Speaker stance and evaluative -ly adverbs in the Modern English period

Corpus-Based Approaches to World Englishes

Insubordination: Central issues and open questions

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