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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
Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries
Language: en
Pages: 460
Authors: Daniël Van Olmen
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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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.
Corpus Pragmatics
Language: en
Pages: 481
Authors: Karin Aijmer
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The first handbook to survey and expand the burgeoning field of corpus pragmatics, the intersection of pragmatics and corpus linguistics.
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
The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in English
Language: en
Pages: 598
Authors: Laurel J. Brinton
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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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