Argument and Rhetoric
, by Lenker, Ursula- ISBN: 9783110205589 | 3110205580
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2/23/2010
The book is the first corpus-based study giving a comprehensive overview of English items which have been used as adverbial connectors ('conjuncts', 'linking adverbials'), from Old English to Present-Day English. The author analyses different characteristics of the make-up, functions and use of connectives, and considers morphological and syntactic factors as well as pragmatic, textlinguistic and socio-cultural aspects.