Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context

Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages : 235
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ISBN-13 : 9027265313
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Download or read book Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context written by Alexandra D'Arcy and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. This volume explores the various contexts of like, each of which contributes to the reality of contemporary vernaculars: its historical context, its developmental context, its social context, and its ideological context. The final chapter examines the ways in which these contexts overlap and inform current understanding of acquisition, structure, change, and embedding. The volume also features an extensive appendix, containing numerous examples of like in its pragmatic functions from a range of English corpora, both diachronic and synchronic. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars of English historical linguistics, grammaticalization, language variation and change, discourse-pragmatics and the interface of these fields with formal linguistic theory.


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