あらすじ
アメリカ英語における談話標識Wellを多面的に探究。サンタバーバラコーパスから用例を採り、対人機能・談話構成機能を立証する。本文英文。
【目次】
Preface
Acknowledgments
Transcription conventions
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Study aims
1.2 Outline
Chapter 2 Conceptual background: Definitions and assumptions
2.1 Discourse markers
2.2 Grammaticalization
2.3 Functional-semantic modes of language
2.4 Politeness theory
Chapter 3 Previous studies on well
3.1 Synchronic perspectives
3.2 Diachronic perspectives
3.3 Syntactic and semantic perspectives
3.4 Well and politeness
Chapter 4 Functions of well: Interpersonal and textual modes from the perspective of politeness
4.1 Data
4.2 Interpersonal functions
4.3 Textual functions
4.4 Summary and Discussion
Chapter 5 Bon as a discourse marker
5.1 The multifunctional nature of bon
5.2 Interpersonal functions
5.3 Textual functions
5.4 Relevance of findings: Case of bueno in Spanish
5.5 Summary and Discussion
Chapter 6 Theoretical implications
6.1 Discourse markers
6.2 Grammaticalization
6.3 Functional-semantic modes of language
6.4 Politeness theory
Chapter 7 Concluding remarks
7.1 Summary
7.2 Further issues
References
Name index
Subject index
