Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English

Herausgeber: Pichler, Heike

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Introducing a range of new methods and insights for analysing discourse-pragmatic variation and change, this volume aims to inform future studies in the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9781107055766
• ISBN-10: 1107055768
• Artikelnr.: 45112815

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; List of tables; Notes on editor and contributors;
Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: discourse-pragmatic
variation and change Heike Pichler; 1. Using the corpus-driven method to
chart discourse-pragmatic change Gisle Andersen; 2. Practical strategies
for elucidating discourse-pragmatic variation Cathleen Waters; 3.
Uncovering discourse-pragmatic innovations: 'innit' in Multicultural London
English Heike Pichler; 4. Innovation, 'right'? Change, 'you know'?
Utterance-final tags in Canadian English Derek Denis and Sali A.
Tagliamonte; 5. Antecedents of innovation: exploring general extenders in
conservative dialects Sali A. Tagliamonte; 6. Quotatives across time: West
Australian English then and now Celeste Rodríguez Louro; 7. The role of
children in the propagation of discourse-pragmatic change: insights from
the acquisition of quotative variation Stephen Levey; 8. Register variation
in intensifier usage across Asian Englishes Robert Fuchs and Ulrike Gut; 9.
The use of referential general extenders across registers Suzanne Wagner,
Ashley Hesson and Heidi Little; 10. Constructing style: phonetic variation
in quotative and discourse particle 'like' Katie Drager; Epilogue: the
future of discourse-pragmatic variation and change research Jenny Cheshire.