Discourse Readjustment(s) in Contemporary English

By Blandine Pennec

Inadequacies, approximations and ambiguities: this is the common batch of phenomena likely to hinder comprehension. Communication, and in particular oral communication, would in theory require many repetitions and preliminary tests in order to reach true accuracy or, at least, an adequacy between the wording and the intended meaning. Nevertheless, languages offer us the chance to momentarily discard discursive linearity, and to give way to a reflexive view in order to go back on our words and amend them, to make changes in wording or enunciative perspectives. This book qualifies these reworkings as readjustments. The author examines, from a large corpus of contemporary English, phenomena of reformulation, of recentering on or distancing from a notion previously used, or of readjustments relating to the very structure of discourse. This book links the syntactic, enunciative and pragmatic levels. Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786302829
• ISBN13: 9781786302823
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Wiley-Iste
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"