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Publication details [#42567]

Klerk, Vivian De. 2005. Procedural meanings of well in a corpus of Xhosa English. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (8) : 1183–1205.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | discourse marker | L2-acquisition | meaning | pragmatics

Language as a subject

English, South African, Black | English, Xhosa

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper focuses on the contextualised uses and procedural meanings of the pragmatic discourse marker 'well' in a large corpus of Xhosa English. Parallels between the use of 'well' in XE and other English corpora, document problems in second language discourse marker-acquisition.