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Pragmatic Markers in Irish English
Edited by Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, Kevin McCafferty and Elaine Vaughan
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 258] 2015
► pp. 348–369

“Yeah well, probably, you know I wasn’t that big into school, you know”

Pragmatic markers and the representation of Irish English in fictionalised dialogue

Research has asserted that communication is a dynamic process in which linguistic choices are continuously being made in relation to a variety of linguistic features including pragmatic markers (Vershueren 2000). Pragmatic markers have been found to be frequently used in conversation serving a variety of functions (Schiffrin 1987; Fraser 1996; Fischer 2000; Aijmer 2002). This study focuses on the use of well and you know as pragmatic markers in a corpus of fictionalised dialogue from the Irish soap opera, Fair City, which comprises 24,000 words. The study aims to determine the manner in which these pragmatic markers are strategically exploited in Irish fiction to create an authentic representation of Irish English.

Published online: 15 July 2015
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https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.258.15pal
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