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Author:   Heike Pichler (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.610kg
ISBN:  

9781107055766

ISBN 10:   1107055768
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   02 June 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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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Advance praise: '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

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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