Discourse markers exhibit a range of grammatical properties that set them apart from many
other lexical and grammatical forms. A number of hypotheses have been proposed to …

This book examines how style and intersubjective meanings emerge through language use.
While numerous studies on youth language focus on face-to-face interaction, this book …

In recent years,“stance” has become increasingly an important locus for research within the
functional, pragmatic, cognitive, sociolinguistic and interactional paradigms. Stance may be …

While it is not uncommon for verb-final (sov) languages such as Japanese and Korean to
deploy a wide range of sentence final particles, given the frequent reanalysis of their (post) …

In this study, we investigate how the discourse marker kunyang in Korean is employed to
help manage and negotiate the stances of interlocutors and their relationship with each …

In this paper, we investigate how Korean-ki and-m nominalization constructions have come
to also express speaker stance. We first identify the semantic distinctions between Korean-ki …

The connection between (inter) subjectification and movement to peripheral positions of a
clause is investigated using diachronic data on the Chinese pragmatic marker bushi. This …

When people communicate, they create shared representations of reality—a common
ground of meaning. This article concerns mapping the dynamic process through which …

Utterance-final particles (UFPs) are function words that are frequently used in everyday
conversation. Unfortunately, as a category, they are difficult to characterise due to their …

This dissertation explores the multifaceted Korean interjection'ney'from the pragmatic,
multimodal, and historical perspectives. As a polite expression,'ney'demonstrates a …