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The structure of discourse-pragmatic variation
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ISSN: 18729592 ISBN: 9789027234933 9027234930 Year: 2013 Volume: 13 Publisher: Amsterdam Benjamins


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The Structure of Discourse-Pragmatic Variation.
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ISBN: 1299396410 9027272182 9789027272188 9027234930 9789027234933 9789027234933 9781299396418 Year: 2013 Publisher: Amsterdam/Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Everyday language use overflows with discourse-pragmatic features. Their frequency, form and function can vary greatly across social groups and change dramatically over time. And yet these features have not figured prominently in studies of language variation and change. The Structure of Discourse-Pragmatic Variation demonstrates the theoretical insights that can be gained into both the structure of synchronic language variation and the interactional mechanisms creating it by subjecting discourse-pragmatic features to systematic variationist analysis. Introducing an innovative methodology that


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Discourse markers and modal particles : categorization and description
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ISBN: 9027271224 9789027271228 1306090555 9781306090551 9789027256393 902725639X Year: 2013 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company,

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Discourse markers and modal particles are fuzzy linguistic categories that are difficult to describe. The contributions in this volume go beyond this statement. They discuss the intersection between modal particles and discourse markers and examine whether or not it is possible to draw a line between these two types of linguistic expressions. On the basis of new synchronic and diachronic data, from speech and writing, from European and Asian languages or cross-linguistically, the authors answer the question whether discourse markers and modal particles are distinct categories, whether they form a cline, or whether modal particles are a subcategory of discourse markers. This common question shows up throughout all chapters, which makes the book to a coherent whole. By disentangling the complexity of categorizing multifunctional expressions, this book also sheds new light on the processes of meaning extension. The traditional discourse and modal functions are complemented by interactional and textual ones. A must read for functional linguists.


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Understanding pragmatic markers : a variational pragmatic approach
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ISBN: 9780748635504 9780748635498 9780748635511 9780748681655 9780748681648 0748635491 0748635505 0748635513 Year: 2013 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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The multifunctionality of pragmatic markers makes it difficult to describe their meaning and functional potential. For example we know very little about pragmatic markers and prosody, their sociolinguistic use (how they are related to the speaker's social class, age or gender) or their distribution across text types (informal conversation, discussion, broadcast programme).This book looks at pragmatic markers in a corpus of spoken English, with a focus on the functions performed by the markers in different types of text. The author explores the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse aspec

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