Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change

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.