Between Specification and Explanation: About a German Discourse Particle

Onea, Edgar; Volodina, Anna

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“…It also suggests that not only elliptic but also MFnämlich may participate in non-causal Particularization discourses. Th ese fi ndings give a more refi ned picture of the empirical data compared to the one presented in Onea and Volodina ( 2009 ) and Onea and Volodina ( 2011 ), where the analysis accounts for MFnämlich as indicating a short answer to Why -questions only and rules out "discourse subordinating but at the same time topic changing questions such as elaborative questions". Th is is a bit unfortunate since, as I have attempted to show, not all cases of Elaboration involve the type of questions envisaged by Onea and Volodina ( 2011 ), e.g.…”

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“…Th e implicit question that the nämlich -sentence answers is then for a sentence like (7) Why, with respect to yesterday, p ?, where p represents the preceding utterance. In Onea and Volodina ( 2011 ), the analysis of nämlich is refi ned in a way that I will address in the next section. Th e basic assumptions however remain the same as in Onea and Volodina ( 2009 ).…”

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Discourse Particles, Discourse Relations and Information Structure: The Case of Nämlich

Karagjosova¹

2011

Int Rev Pragmat

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The paper presents an analysis of the meaning and discourse effects of the German discourse particle nämlich that unifies its different readings and explains its distributional properties. I suggest that nämlich is most adequately analysed in terms of it indicating a specificational relation between its host and the preceding sentence, which in a question-based framework can be implemented as indicating an answer to a "specifying question", a discourse question requiring an answer that provides a more detailed description of some aspect of the preceding utterance. The analysis represents a refinement and extension of the question-based analysis of nämlich developed in Onea and Volodina (2009) where nämlich is analysed in terms of indicating that its host is a short answer to an implicit constituent question or a Why-discourse question. The approach I provide suggests solutions to several puzzles related to the distributional properties of nämlich.

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Discourse Particles, Discourse Relations and Information Structure: The Case of Nämlich

Karagjosova¹

2011

Int Rev Pragmat

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“…As opposed to this, Onea (2016) argues there to be a class of potential questions that play a role in the explication of the discourse-semantic meaning contribution of grammatical constructions.31 While being similar to the role of antecedent QUD s in the analysis of particles and information structure, the analysis takes potential questions to stand in a cataphoric relation to the linguistic expression of interest. In particular, potential questions have been used to spell out the meaning of so-called namely-constructions, as suggested in Onea & Volodina (2011), and of nominal appositives more generally, cf. Ott & Onea (2014).…”

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Questions in Discourse: an Overview

Onea¹,

Zimmermann²

2019

Questions in Discourse

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1 Some theories, cf. Krifka (2011), strive to keep a clear distinction between speech acts and semantic objects, hence, distinguishing between questions as meanings and questions as speech acts and thereby mirroring the distinction between propositions and assertions. We will not make such a terminological distinction here, because a corresponding terminology has not become customary in the literature, even though we do acknowledge that this may give rise to certain confounds. Edgar Onea and Malte Zimmermann -9789004378308 Downloaded from Brill.com07/05/2020 11:02:41PM via free access questions in discourse: an overview 7 questions in discourse: an overview 13 an update will only be possible if the next utterance addresses the question, in which case the question is deleted from the set of questions.6 (10) Discourse update for (6) a. D 0 = ⟨CG 0 , ∅⟩ b. D A1 = ⟨CG 0 , {Q}⟩ c. D B = ⟨CG 0 , ∅⟩ question addressed and deleted d. D A2 = ⟨CG 0 ∪ A2, ∅⟩ 2.2The Meaning of Interrogatives This section gives a short overview of the standard approaches to the analysis of overt questions through the study of the meaning of interrogative clauses. There are three main types of approaches, namely alternative-based approaches to question semantics, discussed in section 2.2.1 and prominently defended, e.g., in Hamblin (1973), Karttunen (1977), or more recently in Beaver & Clark (2008); Partition Semantics, as developed in Groenendijk & Stokhof (1984) and recently defended in Haida (2007), discussed here in section 2.2.2; and, finally, the Structured Propositions-based approach, which we briefly discuss in 2.

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“…El emisor avanza en su discurso tratando siempre de adaptar su producción al horizonte de expectativas del receptor, esto es, a sus conocimientos y a su estado mental. Bien como respuestas a preguntas implícitas (Kuppevelt 1995;Onea/Volodina 2011) bien como mecanismos para la resolución de los problemas intrínsecos al hecho de comunicar (Bührig 1996: 73-74;López/Loureda 2013: 246), los MRs kurz gesagt y mit einem Wort se presentan en los textos como el reflejo de la acción voluntaria e intencional de un individuo con una meta concreta que es capaz de incidir en el modo en que sus interlocutores procesarán su discurso a fin de favorecer la consecución del propósito de su actuación.…”

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“…El propósito de este trabajo 1 es la revisión crítica del tratamiento de la conexión reformulativa en la bibliografía alemana reciente y el análisis de los marcadores de reformulación (en adelante, MRs) kurz gesagt y mit einem Wort a partir del papel que, como unidades con valor eminentemente procedimental (Pons 2008;Loureda 2010;Onea/Volodina 2011), desempeñan en la articulación gramatical y en la organización informativa del discurso. Para ello, partimos de una definición del texto no solo como el producto acabado de una actuación lingüística puntual, sino también (y sobre todo) como un proceso dinámico de construcción que se gesta en la mente de los hablantes a modo de un esquema de intenciones convencionalizado que está orientado a la satisfacción de un propósito comunicativo concreto.…”

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Estructura informativa y reformulación: los recapitulativos "kurz gesagt" y "mit einem wort"

Sabater

2014

Rev. Filol. Alem.

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RESUMENEste artículo analiza el papel discursivo de los marcadores de reformulación recapitulativos a partir de una definición del texto como un proceso dinámico de construcción orientado a la satisfacción de un propósito comunicativo concreto. La consideración de las dinámicas que rigen los procesos de producción textual nos permitirán analizar estos marcadores no como meros nexos textuales paratácticos, sino como los mecanismos mediante los que el emisor distribuye y presenta las distintas unidades comunicativas con las que compone su discurso. Mostraremos que kurz gesagt y mit einem Wort cumplen una doble función textual, organizativa y cognitiva, y contribuyen al intento de todo emisor de aproximar sus producciones a las expectativas del receptor a fin de facilitar la consecución de la meta de su actuación lingüística.Palabras clave: Reformulación, estructura informativa, marcadores discursivos, relevancia, unidades comunicativas. Information Structure and Reformulation: The Recapitulation Markers kurz gesagt and mit einem WortABSTRACT This paper analyses the discourse status of recapitulative reformulation markers from the definition of text as a dynamic construction process which is aimed at the fulfilment of a specific communicative purpose. The consideration of the dynamics governing the processes of text production will allow us to analyse these markers not just as mere paratactic text connectors, but as the mechanisms through which speakers distribute and present the communicative units which make up his discourse. We will show that kurz gesagt and mit einem Wort have a double, both organizing and cognitive, function in text and contribute to the way speakers attempt to adapt their linguistic productions to the receiver's expectations in order to favour the achievement of the end of their linguistic performance.

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Between Specification and Explanation: About a German Discourse Particle

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Discourse Particles, Discourse Relations and Information Structure: The Case of Nämlich

Discourse Particles, Discourse Relations and Information Structure: The Case of Nämlich

Questions in Discourse: an Overview

Estructura informativa y reformulación: los recapitulativos "kurz gesagt" y "mit einem wort"

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