Lexicon, genre and local discourse organisation: French speech act verbs and journalistic texts

Lexicon, genre and local discourse organisation: French speech act verbs and journalistic texts

Analysis of French speech act verbs offers an account of how clarifying verbs (e.g., "preciser, souligner") are used in reported speech microstructures in news writing and how each verb has its own lexico-pragmatic specificity. The verbs contribute to textual cohesion and to clarification...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of French language studies 1998-03, Vol.8 (1), p.45-62
Hauptverfasser: Monville-Burston, Monique, Waugh, Linda R.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Discourse Analysis
French
Journalism
Language Research
Linguistic Theory
News Writing
Pragmatics
Speech Acts
Verbs
Vocabulary
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Zusammenfassung:Analysis of French speech act verbs offers an account of how clarifying verbs (e.g., "preciser, souligner") are used in reported speech microstructures in news writing and how each verb has its own lexico-pragmatic specificity. The verbs contribute to textual cohesion and to clarification in terms of the relationship between the reported speech they introduce and discourse context in which they are used. (MSE)
ISSN:0959-2695
1474-0079
DOI:10.1017/S0959269500000569