A rapidly expanding body of research deals with a functionally related class of connective
expressions commony referred to as discourse markers. The items typically treated in this …

This chapter reviews three influential perspectives in research on discourse markers:
Schiffrin's discourse perspective, Fraser's pragmatic approach, and Maschler's functional …

This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to cross-cultural pragmatics, a field
encompassing the study of language use across linguacultures. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics …

В книге рассматриваются сдвиги фокуса внимания, лежащие в основе построения
языковых значений. Показано, что распределение фокуса в языке в целом следует …

Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive,
intermediate level examination of Language Variation and Change, the branch of …

Grammaticalization refers to the change whereby lexical terms and constructions serve
grammatical functions in certain linguistic contexts and, once grammaticalized, continue to …

Page 1 Understanding Pragmatic Markers A VARIATIONAL PRAGMATIC APPROACH KARIN
AIJMER Page 2 Understanding Pragmatic Markers Page 3 Page 4 UNDERSTANDING …

The present textbook is based on two preceding editions. In 1993, Jan Renkema published
his volume Discourse Studies: An Introductory Textbook, which was updated under the …

Discourse markers have been the subject of a considerable body of recent research. Most
commonly, their genesis and development was described in terms of grammaticalization …

There are few aspects of any language which reflect the culture of a given speech
community better than its particles. Particles are very often highly idiosyncratic:' …