The Evolution Of Pragmatic Markers In English
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| Author | : Laurel J. Brinton |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 598 |
| Release | : 2017-08-31 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1108326331 |
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 to whatever and I'm just saying in present-day English. Laurel J. Brinton carefully maps the syntactic origins and development of these forms, and critically examines postulated unilineal pathways, such as from adverb to conjunction to discourse marker, or from main clause to parenthetical. The book sets case studies within a larger examination of the development of pragmatic markers as instances of grammaticalization or pragmaticalization. The characteristics of pragmatic markers - as primarily oral, syntactically optional, sentence-external, grammatically indeterminate elements - are revised in the context of scholarship on pragmatic markers over the last thirty or more years.
| Author | : Laurel J. Brinton |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 347 |
| Release | : 2017-08-31 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1107129052 |
This is a detailed diachronic study of a set of English pragmatic markers, providing insights concerning their syntactic and semantic development.
| Author | : Kate Beeching |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2016-04-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1316467716 |
Fundamental to oral fluency, pragmatic markers facilitate the flow of spontaneous, interactional and social conversation. Variously termed 'hedges', 'fumbles' and 'conversational greasers' in earlier academic studies, this book explores the meaning, function and role of 'well', 'I mean', 'just', 'sort of', 'like' and 'you know' in British English. Adopting a sociolinguistic and historical perspective, Beeching investigates how these six commonly occurring pragmatic markers are used and the ways in which their current meanings and functions have evolved. Informed by empirical data from a wide range of contemporary and historical sources, including a small corpus of spoken English collected in 2011–14, the British National Corpus and the Old Bailey Corpus, Pragmatic Markers in British English contributes to debates about language variation and change, incrementation in adolescence and grammaticalisation and pragmaticalisation. It will be fascinating reading for researchers and students in linguistics and English, as well as non-specialists intrigued by this speech phenomenon.
| Author | : Laurel J. Brinton |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2023-10-12 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1009322915 |
This book is a state-of-the-art overview of English historical pragmatics, covering a range of topics, including pragmatic markers, speech representation, address terms, speech acts, politeness, and registers, genres and style. It is essential reading for both students and scholars of English linguistics and historical linguistics.
| Author | : Karin Aijmer |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 267 |
| Release | : 2022-05-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0080480292 |
Presents an examination of the methods and theories for studying pragmatic markers cross-linguistically. This work also explores the comparison of pragmatic markers across languages in order to offer important insights into the similarities and differences between languages.
| Author | : Peter Lauwers |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 167 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 902720263X |
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 from verbs meaning 'to look', in a semasiological perspective: Spanish and Catalan mira, Portuguese olha, Italian guarda, French regarde, Romanian uite. We show that they all share many uses, among which turn-taking, introduction of reported speech, hesitation phenomenon, topic-shifting and modalization, except for French regarde. We then establish (against Waltereit, 2002) that the development of these uses is the result of a process
| Author | : Laurel J. Brinton |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012-07-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9781107405011 |
Although English comment clauses such as I think and you know have been widely studied, this book constitutes the first full-length diachronic treatment, focusing on comment clauses formed with common verbs of perception and cognition in a variety of syntactic forms. It understands comment clauses as causal pragmatic markers that undergo grammaticalisation, and acquire pragmatic and politeness functions and subjective and intersubjective meanings. To date, the prevailing view of their syntactic development, which is extrapolated from synchronic studies, is that they originate in matrix clauses which become syntactically indeterminate and are reanalysed as parenthetical. In this corpus-based study, Laurel J. Brinton shows that the historical data do not bear out this view, and proposes a more varied and complex conception of the development of comment clauses. Researchers and students of the English language and historical linguistics will certainly consider Brinton's findings to be of great interest.
| Author | : Bernd Heine |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2021-06-24 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1108995888 |
Discourse markers constitute an important part of linguistic communication, and research on this phenomenon has been a thriving field of study over the past three decades. However, a problem that has plagued this research is that these markers exhibit a number of structural characteristics that are hard to interpret based on existing methodologies, such as grammaticalization. This study argues that it is possible to explain such characteristics in a meaningful way. It presents a cross-linguistic survey of the development of discourse markers, their important role in communication, and their relation to the wider context of sociocultural behaviour, with the goal of explaining their similarities and differences across a typologically wide range of languages. By giving a clear definition of discourse markers, it aims to provide a guide for future research, making it essential reading for students and researchers in linguistics, and anyone interested in exploring this fascinating linguistic phenomenon.
| Author | : Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 4 |
| Release | : 2005 |
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| Author | : Karin Aijmer |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2013-04-22 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0748635513 |
An original study of pragmatic markers in a corpus of spoken English, with a focus on the functions performed by the markers in different types of text.
