Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change
Theory, Innovations, Contact
Published on 20. March 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-1-108-79947-8 (ISBN)
Description
Discourse-pragmatic markers are central to everyday language, yet many aspects of their use and functions remain elusive or under-investigated. Bringing together a global team of leading scholars, this volume presents a representative showcase of work currently being conducted in the field of discourse-pragmatic variation and change, including investigations of features such as uh/um, please, sentence-final is all, and discourse-pragmatic features from a number of languages. The book emphasizes that not only have researchers answered the call to address complex issues such as cross-linguistic reliability, extending research across languages, and expanding and improving on methods and analysis, but that they continue to address perennial questions in the field of language variation and change. With sections on theoretical and methodological issues, innovative variables, and language contact situations, the volume offers a robust overview of best practices for both new and experienced researchers.
Reviews / Votes
'... a top-tier resource book ... the theoretical and methodological innovations utilized in this trailblazing volume add significantly to the concept of discourse markers. In addition, praise goes to the high quality of the print, which makes perusing this work an enjoyable activity.' Journal of Pragmatics 'I would definitely recommend this volume, since in most of the studies the analysis of discourse variation and change is not limited to the simple description of data but goes beyond that by contrasting findings obtained through different complementary methods and tools, and by moving from empirical evidence to linguistic theory. The book, then, is a valuable contribution to research into discourse-pragmatic variation and change in the many facets of the field; indeed, some of the chapters might well be seen as models of rigour and academic professionalism for junior scholars.' Ignacio M. Palacios Martinez, Corpus Pragmatics '[This] volume contributes substantially to the growing field of discourse-pragmatic variation and change in spoken language. It will serve as an essential foundation for further studies.' Elizabeth Closs Traugott, LanguageMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
524 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-79947-8 (9781108799478)
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Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change
Theory, Innovations, Contact
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07/2022
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Elizabeth Peterson | Turo Hiltunen | Joseph Kern
Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change
Theory, Innovations, Contact
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07/2022
Cambridge University Press
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Persons
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.
Content
Foreword Jan-Ola OEstman; 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 Melissa Chiasson; 4. Cross-linguistic variation in spoken discourse markers: Distribution, functions and domains Liesbeth Degand, Zoe 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 Chloe Diskin-Holdaway; 10. General extenders in bilingual speech Joseph Kern; 11. The diverging paths of consequence markers in Canadian French Helene 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.