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9 September 2010

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Contrastive Pragmatics

Special Issue of Languages in Contrast 9:1 (2009)

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Edited by Karin Aijmer
University of Gothenburg

Languages in Contrast 9:1

2009. 150 pp.
Publishing status: Available

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Table of contents

Introduction
1–4
Articles
Modality and ENGAGEMENT in British and German political interviews
Annette Becker
5–22
The intersubjective function of modal adverbs: A contrastive English-French study of adverbs in journalistic discourse
Agnès Celle
23–36
Intersubjective positioning in French and English: A contrastive analysis of ‘ça dépend’ and ‘it depends’
Bart Defrancq and Bernard De Clerck
37–72
Challenges in contrast: A function-to-form approach
Anita Fetzer
73–97
Interruption in advanced learner French: Issues of pragmatic discrimination
Marie-Noëlle Guillot
98–123
Closeness and distance: The changing relationship to the audience in the American TV news show “CBS Evening News” and the Swiss “Tagesschau”
Martin Luginbühl
124–143
The nominative and infinitive in English and Dutch: An exercise in contrastive diachronic construction grammar
Dirk Noël and Timothy Colleman
144–181

Subject classification

Linguistics
Comparative linguistics
Theoretical linguistics