Expressing Opinions in French and Australian English Discourse
：A semantic and interactional analysis
( Pragmatics & Beyond New Series )
Publication subTitle ：A semantic and interactional analysis
Publication series ： Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
Author： Kerry Mullan
Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company
Publication year： 2010
E-ISBN: 9789027287656
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027256041
Subject： H03 semantics, pragmatics, lexicology, and semantics
Language： ENG
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Description
Kerry Mullan's work constitutes a substantial and original contribution to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural comparison. It combines multiple perspectives, those of interactional sociolinguistics, politeness theory, semantic primes and grammaticization, in the analysis of an original database of semi-structured interviews carefully collected and transcribed by the author. While the English and French discourse markers examined are deceptively similar, the author is able to tease out the interactional functions and semantic meanings of each on its own merits, but with a keen eye to the often subtle differences in meaning and function between them. The book's best contribution is indeed in the insightfulness of the contextual analyses of the chosen markers, which renders the claims made about the French and Australian English interactional styles thoroughly convincing.