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The book highlights the expansion of discourse-pragmatic variation and change, especially under-studied variables and languages.
List of contents
Foreword Jan-Ola Östman; Introduction Elizabeth Peterson, Turo Hiltunen and Joseph Kern; Part I. Innovations in theory and method: 1. Reflexes of abruptness in the development of pragmatic markers Derek Denis; 2. Evaluation of pragmatic markers: The case of You Know Erik Schleef and Bradley Mackay; 3. Quotative variation and change in French, with additional insights from Brazilian Portuguese and Italian Stephen Levey, Laura Kastronic, Salvio Digesto and Mélissa Chiasson; 4. Cross-linguistic variation in spoken discourse markers: Distribution, functions and domains Liesbeth Degand, Zoé Broisson, Ludivine Crible and Karolina Grzech; Part II. Innovative variables in English: 5. An emerging pragmatic marker: sentence-final is all Daniela Kolbe-Hanna and Laurel J. Brinton; 6. “That is totally not my type of film”– innovations in the intensifier system of UK English Karin Aijmer; 7. Uh, what should we count? Tim Gadanidis and Derek Denis; 8. Modeling listener responses Mirjam Eiswirth; Part III. Language Contact: 9. You know in L1 and L2 English Chloé Diskin-Holdaway; 10. General extenders in bilingual speech Joseph Kern; 11. The diverging paths of consequence markers in Canadian French Hélène Blondeau, Raymond Mougeon and Mireille Tremblay; 12. What governs speakers' choices of borrowed vs. domestic variants of discourse-pragmatic variables? Gisle Andersen; 13. A place for pliis in Finnish: A discourse-pragmatic variation account of position Elizabeth Peterson, Turo Hiltunen and Johanna Vaattovaara; Afterword Heike Pichler.
About the author
Elizabeth Peterson is a sociolinguist based in Finland. She is the author of numerous articles on pragmatic borrowing in Finnish and the 2020 book Making Sense of “Bad English”.Turo Hiltunen works as university lecturer in English the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has authored a number of studies on corpus pragmatics, corpus compilation, phraseology, and the language of science and medicine.Joseph Kern is Assistant Professor in Spanish at The University of Virginia's College at Wise, USA. He is the author of several articles on discourse-pragmatic features in Spanish, especially in varieties of Spanish in contact.
Summary
With contributions from leading scholars in the field, this book provides a comprehensive overview of discourse-pragmatic variation and change. It has a particular focus on the theoretical and methodological issues that have arisen around this topic in recent years, and includes examples from a wide range of languages.
Foreword
The book highlights the expansion of discourse-pragmatic variation and change, especially under-studied variables and languages.
