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Discourse Markers in Colombian Spanish - A Study in Polysemy (Hardcover)
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Discourse Markers in Colombian Spanish - A Study in Polysemy (Hardcover)
Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]
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This book presents a semantic analysis of a set of four
functionally related discourse markers that are particularly
frequent in conversational Colombian Spanish. A corpus of four
hours of spontaneous conversation is used to study the markers
bueno 'well, OK', pues 'well, then', o sea 'I mean, that is to say'
and entonces 'so, then'. Through a detailed analysis of numerous
examples drawn from the corpus, and employing both quantitative and
qualitative techniques, it is demonstrated that, contrary to
popular belief, discourse markers are not just functional particles
with indeterminate or context-based semantics. Rather, they have
inherent meanings which can be identified and exhaustively defined
with an appropriate semantic methodology, such as is provided by
the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach. This study illustrates
that this approach, which has been widely applied to the semantics
of the lexicon and the grammar, can be extended to the semantics of
discourse-based features, supporting the notion that meaning of all
aspects of language forms one semantic system. This research also
has implications for the study of polysemy, in that it
operationalizes the little understood, but classical definition of
polysemy of items with 'a shared element of meaning', and it
demonstrates that the polysemous relations of discourse markers are
centered around an invariant core that can be identified on the
basis of their use in discourse. As one of the first corpus-based
studies to present a semantic account of the multifunctional nature
of discourse markers this book makes an important contribution to
research on the relationship between semantics and
discourse-pragmatics, and polysemy in discourse.
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