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

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

How do today's teenagers talk? What are the distinguishing features of their style of
language, and what do they tell us about the English language more generally? Drawing on …

Conversations in English contain a lot of small words such as well, you know, I mean, sort of
which have been referred to as pragmatic markers. Although they have recently received a …

General extenders (such as and stuff) are analysed here in the speech of adolescents from
three English towns. There were no consistent patterns of gender or social class variation in …

This article examines general extenders (GEs) in the English spoken in Toronto, Canada,
using a 1.2-million-word corpus stratified by age, sex, and education. Employing quantitative …

General extenders are phrases like'or something','and everything','and things (like that)','and
stuff (like that)', and'and so on'. Although they are an everyday feature of spoken language …

The language of teenagers is of particular interest to linguists, in that adolescents and young
people introduce important innovations and changes into language use, as compared to the …

In a number of recent studies, developments in the structure of English general extenders
(eg and stuff (like that), or something (like that)) have been investigated from the perspective …

The language of teenagers has been the subject of extensive study in recent years due to its
highly innovative nature and richness of expression. Most attention has been paid to the …