Pragmatic markers and sociolinguistic variation : a relevance-theoretic approach to the language of adolescents / Gisle Andersen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andersen, Gisle.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 84.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842x ; new ser. 84

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Discourse markers.

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Linguistic change.

Teenagers--England--London--Language.

Teenagers.

Physical Description:

viii, 352 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; [Great Britain] : J. Benjamins, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book 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/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 grammaticalisation, arguing that markerhood may be viewed as a gradient phenomenon. The empirical work concerns the use of like as a marker, as well as a characteristic use of two originally interrogative forms, innit and is it, which are used as attitudinal markers throughout the inflectional paradigm, despite the fact that they contain a third person singular neuter pronoun. The author provides an in-depth analysis of these features in terms of pragmatic functions, diachronic development and sociolinguistic variation, thus adding support to the hypothesis that adolescents play an important role in language variation and change.

Contents:

PRAGMATIC MARKERS AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARIATION

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

General introduction

Theoretical background

COLT and the BNC: Data and methods

Invariant tags and follow-ups: innit/is it

The pragmatic marker like

Pragmatic aspects of teenage and adult conversation

Notes

References

Appendix

Index

PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-340) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612254635

9781282254633

1282254634

9780585462554

0585462550

9789027298140

9027298149

OCLC:

50096863