Direct speech, subjectivity and speaker positioning in London English and Paris French [PDF]
, 2018 This paper examines functional similarities and differences in the use of pragmatic features – in particular quotatives and general extenders – on the right and left periphery of direct quotations.
Andersen +11 more
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Introducing a corpus of conversational stories. Construction and annotation of the Narrative Corpus [PDF]
, 2012 Although widely seen as critical both in terms of its frequency and its social significance as a prime means of encoding and perpetuating moral stance and configuring self and identity, conversational narrative has received little attention in corpus ...
O'Donnell, Matthew Brook +1 more
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Conversational Grammar- Feminine Grammar? A Sociopragmatic Corpus Study [PDF]
, 2010 One area in language and gender research that has so far received only little attention is the extent to which the sexes make use of what recent corpus research has termed “conversational grammar.” The author’s initial findings have suggested that the ...
Adolphs, Svenia +34 more
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The syntax of manner quotative constructions in English and Dutch [PDF]
, 2012 This paper proposes an account of some properties of the manner quotative constructions be like [Quote] in English and hebben (zo)iets van [Quote] in Dutch. We make two main claims about these constructions.
Haddican, William, Zweig, Eytan
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Contact, the feature pool and the speech community : The emergence of Multicultural London English. [PDF]
, 2011 In Northern Europe’s major cities, new varieties of the host languages are emerging in the multilingual inner cities. While some analyse these ‘multiethnolects’ as youth styles, we take a variationist approach to an emerging ‘Multicultural London English’
Androutsopoulos +62 more
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"Il parle normal, il parle comme nous”: self-reported usage and attitudes in a banlieue [PDF]
, 2018 We report on a survey of language attitudes carried out as part of a project comparing youth language in Paris and London. As in similar studies carried out in London (Cheshire et al. 2008), Berlin (Wiese 2009) and elsewhere (Boyd et al.
Baker +35 more
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Discourse-pragmatic variation in Paris French and London English: Insights from general extenders [PDF]
, 2017 This paper examines the use of general extenders (GEs), such as and stuff in English and et tout in French, in Paris French and London English. We aim to compare the social and the linguistic conditioning of extender use in the two languages, discuss the
Secova, Maria
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The mediated innovation model: a framework for researching media influence in language change [PDF]
, 2014 Linguistic innovations that arise contemporaneously in highly distant locations, such as quotative be like, have been termed ‘global linguistic variants’.
Allen John +28 more
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The role of prosodic reading in English reading comprehension among Cantonese-English bilingual children [PDF]
, 2016 Poster Session 4: no. p4.07bWe examine the role of prosodic reading in English reading comprehension among Cantonese-English bilingual children by characterizing the acoustic characteristics of bilingual children’s English prosodic production and ...
Fung, LSC, Tong, X, Tsui, RKY
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‘Je sais et tout mais...’ might the general extenders in European French be changing? [PDF]
, 2014 This paper addresses contemporary trends in the use of general extenders in two recent corpora of spontaneous French stratified by age. In these corpora, certain variants (e.g. et tout) are highly prevalent in the speech of young people compared to older
Aijmer +26 more
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