Profiling Discourse Participants: Forms And Functions In Spanish Conversation And Debates (pragmatics & Beyond New Series)
by Barbara De Cock /
2014 / English / PDF
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The construction of discourse is a challenging field where many
discourse structures and interactional effects remain poorly
understood. This analysis provides a systematic explanation for the
way in which discourse participants (speaker and hearer) are
construed in Spanish through a corpus-driven analysis of informal
conversation, TV-debates and parliamentary debates. It deals not
only with person deixis, but with the full range of possibilities
speakers choose from when profiling their self or their
relationship with the interlocutor. This analysis also offers new
insights into the operationalization of the concepts of
subjectivity and intersubjectivity as tools for the analysis of
person reference and genre comparison. The comparative and
corpus-driven approach offers methodological tools for genre
analysis that can be transposed to other languages and/or genres.
The detailed description of three socially highly relevant
discourse types from a cognitive-functional perspective makes this
book a useful resource not only for pragmatists but also for
researchers in political and media discourse.
The construction of discourse is a challenging field where many
discourse structures and interactional effects remain poorly
understood. This analysis provides a systematic explanation for the
way in which discourse participants (speaker and hearer) are
construed in Spanish through a corpus-driven analysis of informal
conversation, TV-debates and parliamentary debates. It deals not
only with person deixis, but with the full range of possibilities
speakers choose from when profiling their self or their
relationship with the interlocutor. This analysis also offers new
insights into the operationalization of the concepts of
subjectivity and intersubjectivity as tools for the analysis of
person reference and genre comparison. The comparative and
corpus-driven approach offers methodological tools for genre
analysis that can be transposed to other languages and/or genres.
The detailed description of three socially highly relevant
discourse types from a cognitive-functional perspective makes this
book a useful resource not only for pragmatists but also for
researchers in political and media discourse.