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Contrasting the form and use of reformulation markers
- Source :
- Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya, instname
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2007.
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Abstract
- This article deals with the form and use of reformulation markers in research papers written in English, Spanish and Catalan. Considering the form and frequency of the markers, English papers tend to prefer simple fixed markers and include fewer reformulators than Spanish and Catalan. On the contrary, formal Catalan and Spanish papers include more markers, some of which are complex and allow for some structural variability. As for use, reformulation markers establish dynamic relationships between portions of discourse which can be identified in our corpus with expansion, reduction and permutation. The analysis of the corpus shows that English authors usually reformulate to add more information to the concept (expansion), whereas Catalan and Spanish authors reduce the contents or the implicatures of the previous formulation more frequently than English.
- Subjects :
- Linguistics and Language
Lingüística contrastiva
Social Psychology
Computer science
Anglès -- Gramàtica comparada -- Català
Castellà -- Gramàtica comparada -- Anglès
050109 social psychology
Català -- Gramàtica comparada -- Anglès
computer.software_genre
Equivalence
Language and Linguistics
Paraphrase
Marcadors discursius
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Equivalence (formal languages)
Contrastive linguistics
060201 languages & linguistics
business.industry
Communication
Anglès -- Gramàtica comparada -- Castellà
05 social sciences
06 humanities and the arts
Linguistics
language.human_language
Reformulation markers
Specialized discourse
Reformulation
Anthropology
0602 languages and literature
language
Catalan
Artificial intelligence
business
computer
Natural language processing
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14617080 and 14614456
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Discourse Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b0fafe763cb9fbc56b83f9d6addec611