Pragmatic Markers and Sociolinguistic Variation: A Relevance-Theoretic Approach to the Language of Adolescents

✍ Scribed by Gisle Andersen

• Publisher: John Benjamins
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 367
• Series: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 84
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This title combines theoretical work in linguistic pragmatics and sociolinguistics with empirical work based on a corpus of London adolescent conversation. It makes a general contribution to the study of pragmatic markers as it proposes an analytical model that involves notions such as subjectivity, interactional and textual capacity, and the distinction between contextual alignment and divergence. These notions are defined according to how information contained in an utterance interacts with the cognitive environment of the hearer. Moreover, the model captures the diachronic development of markers from lexical items via processes of grammaticalization, arguing that markerhood may be viewed as a gradient phenomenon.

✦ Table of Contents

PRAGMATIC MARKERS AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARIATION......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
General introduction......Page 12
Theoretical background......Page 40
COLT and the BNC: Data and methods......Page 94
Invariant tags and follow-ups: innit/is it......Page 108
The pragmatic marker like......Page 220
Pragmatic aspects of teenage and adult conversation......Page 312
Notes......Page 322
References......Page 332
Appendix......Page 352
Index......Page 356
PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES......Page 364