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My doctoral thesis,
supervised by Professor Dieter Wolff of
Wuppertal University, grew out of my
interest in composition teaching. During
my student days I had started to draw up
lists of words and phrases signalling
relations between two stretches of text.
These lists formed the basis of the
thesis, which offered a functional
taxonomy of English, French and German
multi-word discourse markers (e.g. it
should be noted that; force est
de constater que; kritisch
anzumerken ist, dass) and a
contrastive analysis of their use in
continuous text. |
