Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English

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 Rodriguez 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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• Análise do discurso
• Sociolinguística
• Gíria dialeto, e jargão