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Author | : Kate Beeching |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2016-04-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1316467716 |
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Fundamental to oral fluency, pragmatic markers facilitate the flow of spontaneous, interactional and social conversation. Variously termed 'hedges', 'fumbles' and 'conversational greasers' in earlier academic studies, this book explores the meaning, function and role of 'well', 'I mean', 'just', 'sort of', 'like' and 'you know' in British English. Adopting a sociolinguistic and historical perspective, Beeching investigates how these six commonly occurring pragmatic markers are used and the ways in which their current meanings and functions have evolved. Informed by empirical data from a wide range of contemporary and historical sources, including a small corpus of spoken English collected in 2011–14, the British National Corpus and the Old Bailey Corpus, Pragmatic Markers in British English contributes to debates about language variation and change, incrementation in adolescence and grammaticalisation and pragmaticalisation. It will be fascinating reading for researchers and students in linguistics and English, as well as non-specialists intrigued by this speech phenomenon.
Author | : Karin Aijmer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107015049 |
Download Corpus Pragmatics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first handbook to survey and expand the burgeoning field of corpus pragmatics, the intersection of pragmatics and corpus linguistics.
Author | : Daniël Van Olmen |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2021-10-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027259089 |
Download Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The relation between pragmatic markers and the peripheries of clauses, utterances and/or turns has been a topic of linguistic interest for the last few decades. Many issues continue to be debated, however, such as “how should the notion of periphery be defined?”, “to what extent do pragmatic markers in the left versus the right periphery fulfill different functions?” and “which factors determine the order of multiple pragmatic markers in a periphery?”. This volume brings together a number of studies addressing these and other questions. It presents new data from a diverse range of languages – including less researched ones in this context like Ainu, Latvian and Lithuanian – and on a variety of types of pragmatic marker – including emoji. The volume as a whole offers new insights into, among other things, the subjectivity intersubjectivity peripheries hypothesis, the idea of left-to-right movement and the matrix clauses hypothesis.
Author | : Carolina P. Amador-Moreno |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2015-07-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027268444 |
Download Pragmatic Markers in Irish English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Pragmatic Markers in Irish English offers 18 studies from the perspective of variational pragmatics by established and younger scholars with an interest in the English of Ireland. Taking a broad definition of pragmatic markers (PMs) as items operating outside the structural limits of the clause that encode speakers’ intentions and interpersonal meanings, this volume includes discussions of traditional PMs like sure that are strongly associated with Irish English, recent globally-spreading innovations like quotative like, and studies of tag questions, vocatives and emoticons. The data sets used cover most of the existing and developing corpora of Irish English as well as historical legal depositions, films, advertising and recent fiction, interviews, recorded conversations, and blogs. The authors address general issues such as what corpora of Irish English might add to the description of PMs in general, the interaction of Irish and Irish English, historical and contemporary uses of specific PMs, and the usage of recent immigrants to Ireland.
Author | : Peter Lauwers |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 902720263X |
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In this paper, we investigate the evolution from imperatives to discourse markers in Romance, with a corpus-based approach. We focus on the case of items coming from verbs meaning 'to look', in a semasiological perspective: Spanish and Catalan mira, Portuguese olha, Italian guarda, French regarde, Romanian uite. We show that they all share many uses, among which turn-taking, introduction of reported speech, hesitation phenomenon, topic-shifting and modalization, except for French regarde. We then establish (against Waltereit, 2002) that the development of these uses is the result of a process
Author | : Laurel J. Brinton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2017-08-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108326331 |
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Based on a rich set of historical data, this book traces the development of pragmatic markers in English, from hwæt in Old English and whilom in Middle English to whatever and I'm just saying in present-day English. Laurel J. Brinton carefully maps the syntactic origins and development of these forms, and critically examines postulated unilineal pathways, such as from adverb to conjunction to discourse marker, or from main clause to parenthetical. The book sets case studies within a larger examination of the development of pragmatic markers as instances of grammaticalization or pragmaticalization. The characteristics of pragmatic markers - as primarily oral, syntactically optional, sentence-external, grammatically indeterminate elements - are revised in the context of scholarship on pragmatic markers over the last thirty or more years.
Author | : Karin Aijmer |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-04-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0748635513 |
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An original study of pragmatic markers in a corpus of spoken English, with a focus on the functions performed by the markers in different types of text.
Author | : Laurel J. Brinton |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2010-12-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110907585 |
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The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.
Author | : Karin Aijmer |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2011-06-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027286647 |
Download Contrastive Pragmatics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
We have recently seen a broadening of pragmatics to new areas and to the study of more than one language. This is illustrated by the present volume on Contrastive Pragmatics which brings together a number of articles originally presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference in Göteborg in 2007. The contributions deal with pragmatic phenomena such as speech acts, discourse markers and modality in different language pairs using theoretical approaches such as politeness theory, Conversation Analysis, Appraisal Theory, grammaticalization and cultural textology. Also discourse practices and genres may differ across cultures as illustrated by the study of TV news shows in different countries. Contrastive pragmatics also includes the comparative study of pragmatic phenomena from a foreign language perspective, a new area with implications for language teaching and intercultural communication. The contributions to this volume were originally published in Languages in Contrast 9:1 (2009).
Author | : Ursula Lutzky |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2012-11-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027273286 |
Download Discourse Markers in Early Modern English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume provides new insights into the nature of the Early Modern English discourse markers marry, well and why through the analysis of three corpora (A Corpus of English Dialogues, 1560-1760, the Parsed Corpus of Early English Correspondence, and the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Early Modern English). By combining both quantitative and qualitative approaches in the study of pragmatic markers, innovative findings are reached about their distribution throughout the period 1500-1760, their attestation in different speech-related text types as well as similarities and differences in their functions. Additionally, this work engages in a sociopragmatic study, based on the sociopragmatically annotated Drama Corpus of almost a quarter of a million words, to enhance our understanding about their use by characters of different social status and gender. This volume therefore constitutes an essential piece of the puzzle in our attempt to gain a full picture of discourse marker use.