TY  - BOOK
AU  - José Carlos Prado Alonso
PY  - 2011
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1424-8689
SN  - 9783035102529
TI  - Full-verb Inversion in Written and Spoken English
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0351-0252-9
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052267
N2  - This book presents a comprehensive corpus-based analysis of full-verb inversion in present-day English. The author examines the distribution and pragmatic functions of full-verb inversion in different fictional and non-fictional text styles as well as in the spoken language. Surprisingly enough, inversion in oral communication has not yet received the attention it deserves, since most work on the topic has been restricted to the written language. It has often been claimed that full-verb inversion occurs mainly in written discourse, but these claims have not yet been backed up by a detailed corpus-based analysis. This book provides a more conclusive picture of the distribution of full inversion in speech and writing and analyses the distinct pragmatic functions that the construction serves in these two modes of communication.
KW  - Contemporary English and American Language, Textual Linguistics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
LA  - English
ER  -