Do discourse markers exist? On the treatment of discourse markers in Relevance Theory

Bordería, Salvador Pons

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2008.03.013

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“…A classic case of procedural encoding is the conjunction but, whose meaning guides the hearer through the comprehension process of the utterance in which it is present, by signalling the concept of contrast between the coordinated elements (Blakemore 2002: 90-91). Each of these two types of meaning may, or may not, be truth-conditional, in that each of them may, or may not, contribute to the proposition expressed (Bordería 2008(Bordería : 1414. For example, discourse connectives such as so and after all are regarded as procedural and non-truth-conditional, since "they encode procedural constraints on implicatures" (Wilson & Sperber 1993: 19) and they do not affect the truth-conditions for an utterance.…”

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“…Mood indicators, interjections and intonation are also claimed to contribute to the construction of higher-order explicatures, but they encode procedures. Finally, pronouns such I and you or indexicals such as now or here are both procedural and truth-conditional in that they impose constraints on explicatures (see Wilson & Sperber 1993;Bordería 2008).…”

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“…The idea of the conceptual/procedural dichotomy has been revisited on a number of occasions by various relevance theorists (see Bordería 2008Bordería : 1415Bordería -1416. Some of them suggest that the clear-cut binary distinction between conceptual and procedural meaning is hard to uphold; Moeschler (2002), for example, suggests that this distinction is gradual, which is reflected in the lexicon.…”

Section: 'Like' As a Pragmatic Markermentioning

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Like in Similes – A Relevance-Theoretic View

Wałaszewska

2013

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The paper examines the meaning of like as used in similes in the light of relevance theory. Similes, even though superficially indistinguishable from literal comparisons, are found to be closer to metaphors. Therefore, it is proposed that like in similes is different from like employed in literal comparisons. In particular, it is claimed that, contrary to the current relevance-theoretic position on this issue, like in similes introduces an ad hoc concept. This like is seen as both conceptual and procedural and, as such, it is distinct from both the conceptual like used in literal comparisons and the procedural like functioning as a pragmatic marker. Such a solution accounts for the similarities and differences between similes, metaphors and literal comparisons.

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Section: 'Like' As a Pragmatic Markermentioning

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Like in Similes – A Relevance-Theoretic View

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2013

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“…Por ejemplo, los marcadores del discurso, además de tener una categorización concreta o de desempeñar una función pragmática, suelen quedar asociados a una delimitación pausal en el discurso (Dorta Luis y Domínguez García, 2003;Martín Butragueño, 2006;Hidalgo y Padilla, 2006;Hidalgo Navarro, 2006b;Montañez Mesas, 2007;Hidalgo Navarro, 2007a;Pons Bordería, 2008;Briz Gómez y otros 2008;Cathala, 2011;Anscombre, 2011;Pereira, 2011;Cuenca y Marín, 2012). Como señala Cathala (2011: 109), "desde un punto de vista formal, los marcadores se caracterizan por su independencia fónica y sintáctica respecto de la oración".…”

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“…No obstante, en la línea de otros planteamientos (Pons Bordería, 1998;Heeman, 1999;Cabedo Nebot, 2009;Briz Gómez y Pons Bordería, 2010;Cabedo Nebot, 2011), intentaremos explorar en este artículo la posibilidad de que esa relación inequívoca de unidad fónica-unidad discursiva pueda no ser tan estricta como pueda parecer en un primer momento. ONOMÁZEIN 28 (diciembre de 2013): 201 -213 Adrián Cabedo Nebot Sobre prosodia, marcadores del discurso y unidades del discurso en español: evidencias de un corpus oral espontáneo 204 Bordería, 1998;Briz Gómez, 2002;Briz Gómez, 2003;Hidalgo Navarro, 2007b;Cabedo Nebot, 2009;Hidalgo Navarro, 2011).…”

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