Reformulation Markers in Non-initial Position in Written English and Spanish

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/cjes.77793
Keywords: contrastive study, discourse markers, reformulation markers, position, modal uses
Agencies: The research carried out to write this article was funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (project FFI2017-84205-P), within the research group CIRES (Comunicación Internacional y Retos Sociales) (H16_20R), supported by DGA (Diputación General de Aragón) and FEDER (Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional). This study is also a contribution to the Research Institute of Employment, Digital Society and Sustainability (IEDIS).

Abstract

This article presents a contrastive analysis of non-initial positions (less common and, therefore, marked) of explanatory reformulation markers in written language in English and Spanish, in relation to their discursive uses. To carry out this analysis, the cases of these markers found in a comparable English-Spanish corpus (Cobuild and CREA) are analyzed. Four positions are established, initial, intermediate, final and independent (Pons 2014), and the results of the non-initial positions are related to the different discursive uses of these markers (Murillo 2012, 2016a, 2016b), taking into account their reformulative and modal uses. The results reveal that the markers in English —particularly that is, but also in other words— display more mobility than those in Spanish —the only one having some mobility is o sea. In addition, regarding their discursive uses, the analysis of the corpus reveals that the markers follow different trends in the two languages.

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Silvia Murillo Ornat, University of Zaragoza

Department of English and German Studies

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Published
2021-11-15
How to Cite
Murillo Ornat S. (2021). Reformulation Markers in Non-initial Position in Written English and Spanish. Complutense Journal of English Studies, 29, 35-48. https://doi.org/10.5209/cjes.77793
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Vol. 29 (2021)
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