The development of discourse and pragmatic markers

Abstract

This methodological chapter is intended as a contextualizing and theoretical introduction. It aims to establish the premises for the theoretical and methodological framework adopted in the volume, as it gives an overview of research on the rise of pragmatic markers in Romance and other languages, at the same time introducing notions and terminology relevant for the discussion in the book. The developments of functional markers have been studied from very different theoretical positions, and such studies call into question widely debated notions as grammaticalization and pragmaticalization, as well as subjectification and intersubjectification. Similarly, the terminological choices made by different scholars to refer to functional markers (e.g. ‘discourse marker’ and/or ‘pragmatic marker’) also subsume diverging theoretical approaches, which are described in detail.

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