Esther Asprey
List of John Benjamins publications for which Esther Asprey plays a role.
Article
2019 The pragmatic use of vocatives in private one-to-one digital communication Internet Pragmatics 2:1, pp. 83–111 | Article
This article examines a corpus of private text messages collected in Birmingham and surrounding towns in 2015. We look specifically at pragmatic roles played by the vocatives we find in the corpus. Since text messages are sent to targeted recipients, vocatives are structurally redundant, and we… read more