Abstract
This paper analyses the discourse status of recapitulative reformulation markers from the definition of text as a dynamic construction process which is aimed at the fulfilment of a specific communicative purpose. The consideration of the dynamics governing the processes of text production will allow us to analyse these markers not just as mere paratactic text connectors, but as the mechanisms through which speakers distribute and present the communicative units which make up his discourse. We will show that kurz gesagt and mit einem Wort have a double, both organizing and cognitive, function in text and contribute to the way speakers attempt to adapt their linguistic productions to the receiver’s expectations in order to favour the achievement of the end of their linguistic performance.
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This paper analyses the discourse status of recapitulative reformulation markers from the definition of text as a dynamic construction process which is aimed at the fulfilment of a specific communicative purpose
Depending on its syntactic environment, nämlich can either function as a specificational marker or as a marker of explanation [...] While these readings may seem unrelated, we argue that a unified lexical entry for nämlich can be given: nämlich marks that the expression it attaches to is a short answer to an implicit question about the previous utterance (Onea/Volodina 2011: 3)
ZIFONUN, G. et al, Grammatik der deutschen Sprache
Summary
Este artículo analiza el papel discursivo de los marcadores de reformulación recapitulativos a partir de una definición del texto como un proceso dinámico de construcción orientado a la satisfacción de un propósito comunicativo concreto. La consideración de las dinámicas que rigen los procesos de producción textual nos permitirán analizar estos marcadores no como meros nexos textuales paratácticos, sino como los mecanismos mediante los que el emisor distribuye y presenta las distintas unidades comunicativas con las que compone su discurso. Mostraremos que kurz gesagt y mit einem Wort cumplen una doble función textual, organizativa y cognitiva, y contribuyen al intento de todo emisor de aproximar sus producciones a las expectativas del receptor a fin de facilitar la consecución de la meta de su actuación lingüística. Palabras clave: Reformulación, estructura informativa, marcadores discursivos, relevancia, unidades comunicativas. Information Structure and Reformulation: The Recapitulation Markers kurz gesagt and mit einem Wort
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