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Interjections as pragmatic markers

Journal of Pragmatics, 2009
Interjections in everyday talk routinely function as pragmatic markers, initiating utterances and relating them to the foregoing interaction. In turn-initial position, one finds both primary interjections like oh and mhm and secondary interjections like wow and boy.
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Pragmatic markers in Chinese

Journal of Pragmatics, 2008
This article presents a principled and systematic description of pragmatic markers in Chinese. Pragmatic markers (and a range of interconnected categories including discourse particles and the like) in English and some other languages have been the subject of intensive investigation.
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Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries

2021
The relation between pragmatic markers and the peripheries of clauses, utterances and/or turns has been a topic of linguistic interest for the last few decades. Many issues continue to be debated, however, such as “how should the notion of periphery be defined?”, “to what extent do pragmatic markers in the left versus the right periphery fulfill ...
Daniël Van Olmen, Jolanta Šinkūnienė
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Pragmatic Markers in the Corpora

2014
An overview of the markers discussed is combined with a description of their development from a grammatical item to pragmatic marker. The choice of Spanish markers, which is the point of departure, is based on their frequency in COLAm, while the English markers are those in COLT that best match the Spanish markers.
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Pragmatic markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles

2017
This book offers new perspectives into the description of the form, meaning and function of Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles in a number of different languages, along with new methods for identifying their ‘prototypical’ instances in situated language contexts, often based on cross-linguistic comparisons. The papers collected in
Fedriani, Chiara, Sansò, Andrea
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Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization

2012
This volume brings together five papers offering cross-linguistic analyses of pragmatic markers involving modality, supplemented by three book reviews on the same topic. The contrastive method, based on monolingual or translation corpora, does not only provide interesting insights about differences with respect to the semantics and the formal encoding ...
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The evolution of pragmatic markers

Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 2005
Hansen, Maj-Britt Mosegaard, Rossari, Corinne   +1 more
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From a pragmatic marker to a direct object marker

Studies in Language, 2002
Several researchers have reported the increased use of o and semantic/pragmatic or syntactic motivations for direct object marking based on texts from between the 8th and 11th centuries. However, very few studies documented direct object marking after that period on until Modern Japanese, and the claims regarding semantic/pragmatic or syntactic ...
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A neo-Gricean pragmatic analysis of Chinese pragmatic markers

Language Sciences, 2011
Abstract This article presents a pragmatic analysis of Chinese pragmatic markers in Chinese. The analysis is Gricean in spirit but differs from Grice (1989) in that it analyses pragmatic markers as conventional implicature potential bearers rather than conventional implicatures per se.
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