Fuzzy Boundaries in Discourse Studies Theoretical, Methodological, and Lexico-Grammatical Fuzziness

This book focuses on the multifarious aspects of ‘fuzzy boundaries’ in the field of discourse studies, a field that is marked by complex boundary work and a great degree of fuzziness regarding theoretical frameworks, methodologies, and the use of linguistic categories. Discourse studies is characterised by a variety of theoretical frameworks and disciplinary fields, research methodologies, and lexico-grammatical categories. The contributions in this book explore some of the nuances and implications of the fuzzy boundaries in these areas, resulting in a wide-reaching volume which will be of interest to students and scholars of discourse studies in fields including sociology, linguistics, international relations, philosophy, literary criticism and anthropology. 

Chapter 1: Introduction (Péter B. Furkó, Ildikó Vaskó, Csilla Dér and Dorte Madsen).- Section One.- Chapter 2: Exploring the Non-Discursive: A Three Layered Approach to Discourse and its Boundaries (Juan Roch).- Chapter 3: Crossing the Boundaries of Epistemic Communities within and Beyond Discourse Studies (Dorte Madsen).- Chapter 4: Fuzzy Identities in (Dis)integrating Europe: Discursive Identifications of Poles in Britain Following Brexit (Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska).- Chapter 5: Urban Wall Monologues: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Graffiti in Granada (Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero).- Section Two.- Chapter 6: Fuzzy Boundaries in the Research into Talk-in-Interaction (Zsuzsanna Németh, Katalin Nagy C. and Eniko Németh T.).- Chapter 7: Emotion and Physicality in Sylvia Plath's Late Poems (Edit Gálla).- Chapter 8: Fuzzy Boundaries in Interpretation: Empirical Study on the Common Traits and Differences of Irony and Metaphor as the Hypothesized Infringements of the Maxim of Quality(Zsuzsanna Schnell).- Chapter 9: Fuzzy Boundaries and Fuzzy Minds: Interpretation Strategies and Discourse Processing in Schizophrenia (Zsuzsanna Schnell, Róbert Herold, Tamás Tényi and Eszter Varga).- Section Three.- Chapter 10: Exploring the Fuzzy Boundaries of Discourse Markers through Manual and Automatic Annotation (Péter B. Furkó).- Chapter 11: Fuzzy Boundaries in the Different Functions and Translations of the Discourse Marker and (Annotated in TED Talks) (Giedré Valunaite Oleškeviciene, Sigita Rackeviciene, Jolita Šliogeriene, Nijole Burkšaitiene, Viktorija  Mažeikiene, Liudmila Mockiene, Ludivine Crible, Ágnes Abuczki, Šárka Zikánová, Péter B. Furkó).- Chapter 12: On the Apparent Transitivity of Auxiliary Do: a Case Study (Saghie Sharifzadeh).- Chapter 12: The Use of Altminteri 'Otherwise' in Romanian: From Adverb to Textual Connector (Ariadna Stefanescu).

Péter B. Furkó is Associate Professor in English Applied Linguistics and Vice Dean for Science and Research at the Department of English Linguistics at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Hungary.

Ildikó Vaskó is Associate Professor at the Department of Scandinavian Studies at Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary.

Csilla Ilona Dér is Associate Professor at the Department of Hungarian Linguistics, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Hungary.

Dorte Madsen is Associate Professor at the Department of Management, Society and Communication at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.