Exemplifications, Selections and Argumentations

Ekkehard Eggs

• 05 november 2013
• 9783631645567

Samenvatting:

This book focuses on the use of example markers in English and in German in terms of linguistics (syntax, semantics, pragmatics, information and text structure, intonation) but also integrates issues of rhetoric, philosophy and argumentation theory. This leads to the distinction of three uses: exemplification, selection, and argumentation.



This linguistic research monograph focuses primarily on the uses of example markers or connectors in English (for example, for instance, such as etc.) and, to a lesser extent, in German ([so] zum Beispiel, beispielsweise etc.). It analyses these uses not only from a linguistics viewpoint (syntax, semantics, pragmatics, information and text structure, intonation) but also integrates issues of rhetoric, philosophy and, in particular, of argumentation theory. This approach leads to the distinction of three main uses of example markers − exemplification, selection, argumentation − and thus entails the abandonment of the traditional grammatical approach, which only recognizes exemplifying use, and of the more recent approach in computational linguistics, which only distinguishes selective use.