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Discourse Markers An Enunciative Approach
Graham Ranger
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 Hardcover. 320 p. ISBN 978-3319709048. £80
Reviewed by Wilfrid Rotgé Sorbonne Université, Paris
Most researchers in linguistics who have studied this subject in France will be pleased to know that a book on “enunciative linguistics” has been published by a well-known and highly respected publishing house, Palgrave Macmillan. And no doubt they will be happy to read its contents, as it offers a clear presentation of a widely respected theoretical approach to language, mainly practised in France and a few other countries. It is still little known in English-speaking linguistic circles and Discourse Markers : An Enunciative Approach is exactly the kind of book that many linguists I know have been waiting for. The approach that is presented is called The Theory of Enunciative and Predicative Operations (TEPO) and draws heavily upon the writings of Antoine Culioli (1924-2018) and his close collaborators. The first chapter is devoted to the theory itself, and provides a “comprehensive framework for modelling the dynamics of natural language activity” (preface). To me, this is a must-read for all linguists, as it provides a remarkable summary of Culioli’s approach that is both comprehensive and accessible. The rest of the book shows how the theory can be applied to specific discourse markers, and more precisely to anyway (chap. 3), indeed and in fact (chap. 4), yet and still (chap. 5), like (chap. 6) and I think (chap. 7). Each chapter can be read separately, although chapters 3 to 7 can only be fully understood after reading the theoretical introduction presented in chapter 1. The chapters devoted to discourse markers start with a section entitled “previous studies” or “previous research.” Graham Ranger builds on other theoretical approaches to show how TEPO can shed a new light on specific linguistic markers. Thus, with anyway, the enunciative approach accounts for its whole range of uses in terms of a single profile. Each chapter ends with a very useful summary. Graham Ranger, Discourse Markers : An Enunciative Approach (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)—Reviewed by Wilfrid Rotgé, Sorbonne Université, Paris
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