02558nam 2200565 a 450 991078688550332120230803030047.00-7486-3551-310.1515/9780748635511(CKB)2670000000358113(EBL)1190662(OCoLC)850161629(SSID)ssj0000973080(PQKBManifestationID)11602711(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000973080(PQKBWorkID)10959269(PQKB)10294735(MiAaPQ)EBC1190662(DE-B1597)614641(DE-B1597)9780748635511(OCoLC)1302164300(EXLCZ)99267000000035811320130530d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUnderstanding pragmatic markers[electronic resource] a variational pragmatic approach /Karin AijmerEdinburgh Edinburgh University Press20131 online resource (177 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7486-3549-1 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Symbols used in Discourse Transcriptions""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 The Pragmatic Marker Well""; ""3 In Fact and Actually � A Class of Adversative Pragmatic Markers""; ""4 General Extenders""; ""5 Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Author Index""; ""Subject Index""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 aspecPragmaticsDiscourse markersPragmatics.Discourse markers.420.145HF 350rvkAijmer Karin467035MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786885503321Understanding pragmatic markers3840032UNINA