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Understanding Pragmatic Markers : a Variational Pragmatic Approach.

The multifunctionality of pragmatic markers makes it difficult to describe their meaning and functional potential. For example we know very little about pragmatic markers and prosody, their sociolinguistic use (how they are related to the speaker's social class, age or gender) or their distribu...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aijmer, Karin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The multifunctionality of pragmatic markers makes it difficult to describe their meaning and functional potential. For example we know very little about pragmatic markers and prosody, their sociolinguistic use (how they are related to the speaker's social class, age or gender) or their distribution across text types (informal conversation, discussion, broadcast programme). 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. The author explores the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse aspec.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780748635511
0748635513