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New approches to rhetoric
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ISBN: 1322418098 0761929126 1452267073 9781452267074 9781322418094 145223311X 9781452233116 9780761929130 0761929134 9780761929123 Year: 2004 Publisher: Thousand Oaks, California

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Original, never-before-published pieces by leading rhetorical theorists and critics: James Darsey, Kathryn Olson, George Cheney, Dana Cloud and Marouf Hasain, among others. Each part opens with a brief introduction to frame discussion for students.

Parentheticals
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ISBN: 9789027233707 9027233705 Year: 2007 Volume: 106 106 Publisher: Amsterdam Benjamins

Parentheticals
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ISBN: 1282152645 9786612152641 9027291993 9789027291998 9027233705 9789027233707 9789027233707 9781282152649 6612152648 Year: 2007 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub. Co.

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Parentheticals are a fascinating way of interrupting spoken and written utterances. This paper focuses on prosodic aspects of the analysis of such constructions in contemporary German. The investigation starts with a discussion of the prosodic features relevant to the study of parentheticals such as discussed in previous literature - intensity, articulation rate, fundamental frequency, pauses, and intonation contours - and, drawing on these features, goes on to discuss data from recent parliamentary debates. The results show that future prosodic studies should focus on the transition zone between the part of the anchor clause preceding the parenthetical construction, and the parenthetical construction itself.

Reduced parenthetical clauses as mitigators : a corpus study of spoken French, Italian and Spanish.
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ISSN: 13880373 ISBN: 9027223017 9789027223012 9786612154935 1282154931 9027292817 Year: 2007 Volume: 27 Publisher: Amsterdam Benjamins

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While parentheticals attract constant attention, they very rarely constitute the main subject of monographs. This book provides a comprehensive account of reduced parenthetical clauses (RPCs) in three Romance languages. Typical French RPCs are je crois, disons, je dirais, je pense, je sais pas, and je trouve. The research draws on 22 corpora of spoken French, Italian, and Spanish comprising a total amount of 3,975,500 words. Its results consist in a typology of the relevant expressions in the three languages, in the understanding of their pragmatic function and of the factors influencing their use, and in the description of their syntactic and prosodic properties. Other findings are that RPCs are not restricted to statements but also occur in questions and that belief verbs are not as frequent as commonly assumed. Although the book is about Romance parentheticals, its conclusions are relevant for other languages.


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Parenthetical Verbs
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ISBN: 9783110376036 3110376032 3110376148 3110394197 9783110394191 9783110376142 Year: 2015 Volume: 557 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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Parenthesis has recently seen a considerable surge in interest. This volume presents the – often contrasting – theoretical positions on parenthetical verbs and examines them from different analytical perspectives. It covers parenthetical verbs in English as well as in several other languages. Methodologically, the volume is marked by its empirical orientation: Most contributions are based on data from experiments or corpora. Parenthesis has recently seen a considerable surge in interest. This volume presents the – often contrasting – theoretical positions on parenthetical verbs and examines them from different analytical perspectives. The initial theoretical section contains, among others, two contributions presenting diametrically opposed analyses of the syntax of parenthetical verbs. Although (synchronic) syntax pervades the volume, other analytical levels and approaches are also given weight: The second section provides insights into the historical and ontogenetic development of parenthetical verbs, while the third section deals with prosody and prosody-syntax or prosody-semantics mappings. The volume covers parenthetical verbs in English as well as in several other languages (Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese and Turkish), some of which are rarely taken into consideration when dealing with parentheticals. Methodologically, the volume is marked by its strong empirical orientation: With few exceptions, the contributions are based on data from experiments or from corpora (historical, contemporary, diachronic, synchronic, oral, written, child, adult).

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