PRAGMATIC MARKERS AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARIATION; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; General introduction; Theoretical background; COLT and the BNC: Data and methods; Invariant tags and follow-ups: innit/is it; The pragmatic marker like; Pragmatic aspects of teenage and adult conversation; Notes; References; Appendix; Index; PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES
Summary
This book combines theoretical work in linguistic pragmatics and sociolinguistics with empirical work based on a corpus of London adolescent conversation. It makes a general contribution to the study of pragmatic markers, as it proposes an analytical model that involves notions such as subjectivity, interactional and textual capacity, and the distinction between contextual alignment/divergence. These notions are defined according to how information contained in an utterance interacts with the cognitive environment of the hearer. Moreover, the model captures the diachronic development of marker
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-340) and indexes
