Grammaticalization of Though in English

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Hyunsook Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제62호, 295~315쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2010.12.01

영문 초록

Discourse is the locus where the interlocutors negotiate the meaning of lexical items. This paper aims to develop a multifuctional profile of though as a discourse marker specially through the study of what functions a discourse marker though has. It is shown that though as a discourse marker is syntactically free and usually enclitic. Its basic use is to introduce a proposition that is contrary to expectation. It signals that the speaker is engaged in a particular speech act, especially of a face-threatening type, such as contradicting, correcting, or disagreeing with the previous speaker. It can serve function of introducing a new topic or subtopic as Barth-Weingarten and Couper-Kuhlen (2002) suggested as the function of the final though. In addition, the syntactic and semantic change of though is traced in light of grammaticalization. It claims that in the course of grammaticalization of though, some mechanisms are employed such as subjectification, generalization, persistence, divergence, and layering.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Discourse functions of Though

3. Syntactic and Semantic Changes

4. Conclusion

키워드

grammaticalization discourse marker use of though semantic changes