TY  - BOOK
AU  - Claudia Claridge
AU  - Merja Kytö
PY  - 2019
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1424-8689
SN  - 9783034338011
TI  - Punctuation in Context – Past and Present Perspectives
DO  - 10.3726/b16021
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1110906
N2  - Punctuation is an integral element in writing and has been so for centuries. The present volume brings together approaches in linguistics, stylistics and other fields to highlight the rich repertoire of issues involved in the study of punctuation. The contributions to the book discuss the grammatical, pragmatic, rhetorical and stylistic functions of punctuation, such as encoding emotion, metalinguistic marking, foregrounding and paralinguistic indication. They also highlight the sensibility of punctuation to genre and the speech-writing continuum, as well as the important role punctuation plays for reader interpretation. They further demonstrate how punctuation conventions change in time. The data is drawn from English, with one investigation devoted to German.
KW  - punctuation mark, pragmatics, stylistics, rhetorics, grammar, English
LA  - English
ER  -