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The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in English
Language: en
Pages: 347
Authors: Laurel J. Brinton
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This is a detailed diachronic study of a set of English pragmatic markers, providing insights concerning their syntactic and semantic development.
Pragmatic Markers in British English
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Kate Beeching
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-01 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Fundamental to oral fluency, pragmatic markers facilitate the flow of spontaneous, interactional and social conversation. Variously termed 'hedges', 'fumbles' a
Pragmatics in the History of English
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Laurel J. Brinton
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-10-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book is a state-of-the-art overview of English historical pragmatics, covering a range of topics, including pragmatic markers, speech representation, addre
Pragmatic Markers in Contrast
Language: en
Pages: 267
Authors: Karin Aijmer
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-05-16 - Publisher: BRILL

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Presents an examination of the methods and theories for studying pragmatic markers cross-linguistically. This work also explores the comparison of pragmatic mar
Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization
Language: en
Pages: 167
Authors: Peter Lauwers
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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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