Discourse Pragmatic Variation And Change
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Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change
Author: Elizabeth Peterson
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2025-03-20
Discourse-pragmatic markers are central to everyday language, yet many aspects of their use and functions remain elusive or under-investigated. Bringing together a global team of leading scholars, this volume presents a representative showcase of work currently being conducted in the field of discourse-pragmatic variation and change, including investigations of features such as uh/um, please, sentence-final is all, and discourse-pragmatic features from a number of languages. The book emphasizes that not only have researchers answered the call to address complex issues such as cross-linguistic reliability, extending research across languages, and expanding and improving on methods and analysis, but that they continue to address perennial questions in the field of language variation and change. With sections on theoretical and methodological issues, innovative variables, and language contact situations, the volume offers a robust overview of best practices for both new and experienced researchers.
Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change
Author: Elizabeth Peterson
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2022-07-28
The book highlights the expansion of discourse-pragmatic variation and change, especially under-studied variables and languages.
Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context
Author: Alexandra D'Arcy
language: en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date: 2017-09-21
Like is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. This volume explores the various contexts of like, each of which contributes to the reality of contemporary vernaculars: its historical context, its developmental context, its social context, and its ideological context. The final chapter examines the ways in which these contexts overlap and inform current understanding of acquisition, structure, change, and embedding. The volume also features an extensive appendix, containing numerous examples of like in its pragmatic functions from a range of English corpora, both diachronic and synchronic. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars of English historical linguistics, grammaticalization, language variation and change, discourse-pragmatics and the interface of these fields with formal linguistic theory.