Contrastive Discourse Analysis - Functional and Corpus Perspectives - Maite Taboada
Discourse markers and coherence relations: Comparison across markers, languages and modalities
Contrastive Discourse Analysis - Functional and Corpus Perspectives - Maite Taboada
Maite Taboada [+]
Simon Frazer University
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Maite Taboada is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University (Canada). She holds MA and PhD degrees from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), and an MSc in Computational Linguistics from Carnegie Mellon University. Maite works in the areas of discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics and computational linguistics.
Description
This chapter examines how one particular coherence relation, Concession, is marked across languages and modalities, through an extensive analysis of the Concession relation, examining the types of discourse markers used to signal it. The analysis is contrastive from three different angles: markers, languages and modalities.