Discourse Connectives: From Historical Origin to Present-Day Development
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Discourse Connectives: From Historical Origin to Present-Day Development
Original language description
The paper focuses on the description and delimitation of discourse connectives, i.e. linguistic expressions significantly contributing to text coherence and generally helping the reader to better understand semantic relations within a text. The paper discusses the historical origin of discourse connectives viewed from the perspective of present-day linguistics. Its aim is to define present-day discourse connectives according to their historical origin through which we see what is happening in discourse in contemporary language. The paper analyzes the historical origin of the most frequent connectives in Czech, English and German (which could be useful for more accurate translations of connectives in these languages) and point out that they underwent a similar process to gain a status of present-day discourse connectives. The paper argues that this historical origin or process of rising discourse connectives might be language universal. Finally, the paper demonstrates how these observations may be help
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-06123S" target="_blank" >GA17-06123S: Anaphoricity in Connectives: Lexical Description and Bilingual Corpus Analysis</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
New perspectives on cohesion and coherence: Implications for translation
ISBN
978-3-946234-72-2
Number of pages of the result
24
Pages from-to
11-34
Number of pages of the book
157
Publisher name
Language Science Press
Place of publication
Berlin, Germany
UT code for WoS chapter
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