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Author:   Heike Pichler (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.450kg
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9781107659483

ISBN 10:   1107659485
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   28 March 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of figures; List of tables; Notes on editor and contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: discourse-pragmatic variation and change Heike Pichler; 1. Using the corpus-driven method to chart discourse-pragmatic change Gisle Andersen; 2. Practical strategies for elucidating discourse-pragmatic variation Cathleen Waters; 3. Uncovering discourse-pragmatic innovations: 'innit' in Multicultural London English Heike Pichler; 4. Innovation, 'right'? Change, 'you know'? Utterance-final tags in Canadian English Derek Denis and Sali A. Tagliamonte; 5. Antecedents of innovation: exploring general extenders in conservative dialects Sali A. Tagliamonte; 6. Quotatives across time: West Australian English then and now Celeste Rodríguez Louro; 7. The role of children in the propagation of discourse-pragmatic change: insights from the acquisition of quotative variation Stephen Levey; 8. Register variation in intensifier usage across Asian Englishes Robert Fuchs and Ulrike Gut; 9. The use of referential general extenders across registers Suzanne Wagner, Ashley Hesson and Heidi Little; 10. Constructing style: phonetic variation in quotative and discourse particle 'like' Katie Drager; Epilogue: the future of discourse-pragmatic variation and change research Jenny Cheshire.

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'An extraordinary suite of papers that will set the agenda in research on discourse-pragmatic variation for years to come.' David Britain, Universitat Bern, Switzerland 'Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English, edited by Heike Pichler, is an excellent overview of methods, new discoveries, and insights related to the ways in which these types of variables may work in sociolinguistic variation ... the volume is a great resource for both students and researchers interested in studying variables that lie at the intersection of discourse and pragmatics.' The Linguist List (linguistlist.org) `An extraordinary suite of papers that will set the agenda in research on discourse-pragmatic variation for years to come.' David Britain, Universitat Bern, Switzerland 'Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English, edited by Heike Pichler, is an excellent overview of methods, new discoveries, and insights related to the ways in which these types of variables may work in sociolinguistic variation ... the volume is a great resource for both students and researchers interested in studying variables that lie at the intersection of discourse and pragmatics.' The Linguist List (linguistlist.org)

'An extraordinary suite of papers that will set the agenda in research on discourse-pragmatic variation for years to come.' David Britain, Universität Bern, Switzerland 'Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English, edited by Heike Pichler, is an excellent overview of methods, new discoveries, and insights related to the ways in which these types of variables may work in sociolinguistic variation … the volume is a great resource for both students and researchers interested in studying variables that lie at the intersection of discourse and pragmatics.' The Linguist List (linguistlist.org)

'An extraordinary suite of papers that will set the agenda in research on discourse-pragmatic variation for years to come.' David Britain, University of Bern 'Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English, edited by Heike Pichler, is an excellent overview of methods, new discoveries, and insights related to the ways in which these types of variables may work in sociolinguistic variation ... the volume is a great resource for both students and researchers interested in studying variables that lie at the intersection of discourse and pragmatics.' The Linguist List (linguistlist.org) An extraordinary suite of papers that will set the agenda in research on discourse-pragmatic variation for years to come. David Britain, University of Bern 'Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English, edited by Heike Pichler, is an excellent overview of methods, new discoveries, and insights related to the ways in which these types of variables may work in sociolinguistic variation ... the volume is a great resource for both students and researchers interested in studying variables that lie at the intersection of discourse and pragmatics.' The Linguist List (linguistlist.org)

Author Information

Heike Pichler is Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at Newcastle University. She is author of The Structure of Discourse-Pragmatic Variation (2013) and has published in English Language and Linguistics, the Journal of Sociolinguistics and Intercultural Pragmatics. She is the founder of the Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change (DiPVaC) conference series which serves to provide a forum for exploring methodological, empirical and theoretical advancements in the quantitative, variationist analysis of discourse-pragmatic features, and she is also Chair of the DiPVaC research network (www.dipvac.org).

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