Ch. 1. General introduction -- 1.1. Pragmatics and sociolinguistic variation -- 1.2. Aims and scope of the current study -- 1.3. The structure of this book -- Ch. 2. Theoretical background -- 2.1. Relevance and grammaticalisation -- 2.2. Pragmatic markers -- 2.3. Pragmatic markers and (non-)propositional meaning -- 2.4. Pragmatic markers and relevance -- Ch. 3. COLT and the BNC -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The COLT conversations -- 3.3. The BNC/London conversations -- 3.4. Statistical method and representativity -- Ch. 4. Invariant tags and follow-ups -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Pragmatic functions -- 4.3. Variation and language change -- Ch. 5. The pragmatic marker like -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Pragmatic functions -- 5.3. Variation and language change -- Ch. 6. Pragmatic aspects of teenage and adult conversation -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Language change and age-grading -- 6.3. Suggestions for future research
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