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Understanding Pragmatic Markers : A Variational Pragmatic Approach, Paperback / softback Book

Understanding Pragmatic Markers : A Variational Pragmatic Approach Paperback / softback

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This is a study of pragmatic markers in a corpus of spoken English.

Pragmatic markers are multifunctional and this can make it difficult to describe their meaning and potential.

In particular, we know little about pragmatic markers and prosody, their sociolinguistic use or their distribution across text types.

This book looks at pragmatic markers in a corpus of spoken English, with a focus on the functions performed by the markers in different types of text.

Karen Aijmer explores the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse aspects of the markers.

By taking a broader perspective on the markers, classifying them, describing their class-specific properties and analysing individual markers, she assesses whether any generalisations can be made about the prosody of the markers.

It includes a definition of pragmatic markers in the context of the book.

It features chapter-long case studies of the pragmatic markers well, in fact and actually.

Each chapter has a clear introduction and conclusion.

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