Two ways to reformulate: a contrastive analysis of reformulation markers

Cuenca, María Josep

doi:10.1016/s0378-2166(03)00004-3

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“…As a preliminary step, reformulation markers as defi ned in Section 1 above were concordanced: Concordance is an outstanding on-screen function of WordSmith enabling one to have all occurrences of a certain word or phrase displayed at once with their most immediate yet expandable context. Thus, concordance lines were generated for the reformulation markers retrieved following Cuenca (2003) -as was the case with in other words, namely, that is, notably, i.e. and this means -and Lo Cascio (2009) -i.e.…”

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“…In the light of this, this paper is aimed at carrying out a corpus-based analysis of the open-ended category of reformulation markers in two comparable corpora of judgments issued by two different courts, namely the Court of Justice of the European Communities and Ireland's Supreme Court. Reformulation is defi ned by Cuenca (2003Cuenca ( : 1071Cuenca ( -1072) as a basic "discourse function by which the speaker re-elaborates an idea in order to be more specifi c" and thereby facilitates the hearer's comprehension; what is more, reformulation often implies "more than a strict paraphrase", and notably "discourse values such as explanation, specifi cation, generalization, implication, gloss or summary". In other words, reformulation, analysed by Nigoević (2009) in legal settings, appears to be a crucial component of legal discourse, where it may play a key-role in clarifying the scope of normative texts as well as to make judicial argumentation explicit, easier to follow in its development and hence more convincing in legitimating the judge's reasoning.…”

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“…As such, analysis will focus both on items traditionally associated with reformulation following Cuenca (2003), e.g. in other words or namely, but also on other elements that Lo Cascio (2009: 201-208) includes among his illocutionary markers corresponding to homogeneous functions.…”

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“In Other Words, …”: A Corpus-based Study of Reformulation in Judicial Discourse

Mazzi

2017

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The language of the law has been a favourite subject of investigation for both legal professionals and linguists for more than a decade now. Linguists, for instance, have paid increasing attention to the interplay of precise and fl exible terms in legal drafting, and language variation across the genres of legal discourse. Among the latter, judgments have been discussed as a case in point by argumentation scholars, although the linguistic components of judicial argumentative discourse have often been overlooked. In the light of this, the aim of this paper is to carry out a corpus-based analysis of the open-ended category of reformulation markers as outstanding discursive items of judicial discourse in two comparable corpora of authentic judgments issued by two different courts of last resort, namely the Court of Justice of the European Communities and Ireland's Supreme Court. By combining a qualitative with a quantitative analysis, the study shows that reformulation markers tend to activate a variety of discursive confi gurations across the two courts. Hence, data reveal that reformulation strengthens the quality of both judicial narrative, as it were -as is clear from its deployment in clarifying the normative background and specifying the factual framework of disputes -and at once judicial argument, when judges characterise, refi ne or grade reported arguments/interpretations or they wish to make their reasoning more solid and convincing.

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“…'I mean'; cf. Cuenca 2003Cuenca , 1073Csűry 2005, 80;Dömötör 2008a), and some papers even list relevant examples, there are relatively few analyses concentrating specifically on these items (notable exceptions are Siepmann (2005), and papers about the frequent you know and I mean). Part of the reason may be that multi-word units are special even within the group of DMs, heterogeneous as it is to begin with (built on source items coming from a number of different parts of speech, exhibiting diverse functions, etc.).…”

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On the status of discourse markers

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2010

Acta Linguistica Hungarica

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Research on discourse markers has run into fundamental difficulties recently. First, that group of linguistic items appears to withstand approaches trying to account for them in terms of formal properties, even though the set of discourse markers includes a subset, that of discourse particles, that is somewhat easier to characterise in formal terms. Secondly, a function-based description of discourse markers has its own problems, too: it is not easy to find the common denominator of all the diverse roles that the relevant literature attributes to them. A substantial part of the latter difficulty has its roots in the fact that, to date, no adequate and full-fledged classification has been proposed with respect to linguistic units having a pragmatic role, including discourse markers.No increase in the amount of empirical research does, in itself, present a way out of that situation: successful continuation of such research and general theoretical advancement both require that certain fundamental issues be clarified first. The purpose of this paper, accordingly, is to reveal certain difficulties in referring to and characterizing discourse markers (via a review of the relevant literature), claiming that some of their allegedly canonical properties are oversimplified or downright wrong. Also, an effort is made to highlight crucial functional aspects of the delimitation of the group of discourse markers and to discuss the status of multi-word discourse markers, too.Keywords: discourse marker, pragmatic marker, discourse particle, functional description, multi-word discourse marker * I wish to acknowledge the generous help I received in writing this paper from members of the Functional linguistics workshop of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and from the reviewers of this paper. I also wish to thank Mária Ladányi for the numerous pieces of advice and encouragement I received from her.

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“…Também nos baseamos nas investigações de MRs (Cuenca, 2003), no conceito de FL (Nattinger;DeCarrico, 1992) e na pesquisa a respeito de MRs e FLs recorrentes em um corpus comparável monolíngue de textos narrativos originais e traduzidos para a língua inglesa (Baker, 2004).…”

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Análise de similaridades e diferenças no uso de marcadores de reformulação e frases lexicais, em um corpus paralelo, constituído de contos e romances de Claice Lispector, e as respectivas traduções para o inglês e italiano

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Two ways to reformulate: a contrastive analysis of reformulation markers

Cited by 80 publications

References 9 publications

“In Other Words, …”: A Corpus-based Study of Reformulation in Judicial Discourse

“In Other Words, …”: A Corpus-based Study of Reformulation in Judicial Discourse

On the status of discourse markers

Análise de similaridades e diferenças no uso de marcadores de reformulação e frases lexicais, em um corpus paralelo, constituído de contos e romances de Claice Lispector, e as respectivas traduções para o inglês e italiano

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