Publications

Publication details [#42598]

Tagliamonte, Sali A. 2005. So who? Like how? Just what?: Discourse markers in the conversations of Young Canadians. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (11) : 1896–1915.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | gender | innovation | language change | teenager

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This article explores the use of discourse markers in a large corpus of conversational data from young male and female Canadians, between 10 and 19 years old. The results demonstrate the extent of linguistic innovation in urban youngsters.