Exemplifications Selections and Argumentations: The Use of Example Markers in English and German

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.Exemplifications, Selections and Argumentations: The Use of Example Markers in English and German 1st Edition is written by Ekkehard Eggs; Dermot Mc Elholm and published by Peter Lang Gmb H, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften. ISBNs for Exemplifications, Selections and Argumentations are 9783653037425, 3653037425 and the print ISBNs are 9783631645567, 3631645562.