Information-Structural Perspectives on Discourse Particles: Introduction to the volume
Résumé
What can information-structural categories tell us about discourse particles?
This volume is concerned with the various interactions between Information Structure and the
syntax, semantics and pragmatics of those particles that take scope over the whole utterance or even
beyond, and mark phenomena such as stance, speech act specification, Common Ground
Management or discourse structuration (Fernandez-Vest 1994). For clarity’s stake, all these
particles will be labelled ‘discourse particles”. Several subtypes ought to be distinguished
depending on the scope or on the precise function of these particles. Especially, modal particles
tend to emerge as a special subgroup within the set of discourse particles or even discourse markers
(for discussion, see Waltereit & Detges 2007 and the studies collected in Degand et al. 2013 or
Fedriani & Sansò 2017). As we shall see in the course of this volume, information-structural
categories might actually be relevant tools to assess the relevance of such a distinction. But for now,
we shall use ‘discourse particles’ as cover term for modal particles as they are known from
Germanic, sentential particles like Japanese sentence-final particles, and other illocutionary
particles that might interact with Information Structure. (...)
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