Where focus formulas and discourse markers meet

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F15%3A33155713" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/15:33155713 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/DI2015-2-65" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/DI2015-2-65</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/DI2015-2-65" target="_blank" >10.5817/DI2015-2-65</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Where focus formulas and discourse markers meet
Original language description
Our paper, theoretically anchored in functional and systemic grammar, focuses on a relatively marginal type of focus formulas (FFs), referred to by Schmid (2001) as 'N-be-that-constructions' or constructions with shell-Nouns (cf. The trouble/problem/fact... is that people have short memories.). When we used corpus data (BNC, COCA) to verify the role of FFs in information packaging in text/discourse, we were faced with their two seemingly contrary manifestations: they occurred either (i) as relatively stable utterance-initial templates or (ii) as looser configurations, co-occurring with various discourse markers (DMs). Our hypothesis is that in the latter case, namely when interlaced into clusters of DMs, the FFs tend to adapt to the communicatively regulative (Leech, 1983) roles of surrounding DMs, and extend their role as focalising devices by an additive role, i.e. to participate in overt language manifestations of a number of pragmatically-based communicative strategies associated w
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AI - Linguistics
OECD FORD branch
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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