Publications

Publication details [#51043]

Liao, Silvie. 2009. Variation in the use of discourse markers by Chinese teaching assistants in the US. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (7) : 1313–1328.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | discourse marker | language attitude | second language acquisition | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study examines the use of English as a second language discourse markers by male and female Chinese university teaching assistants in the U.S., linking perceptions from second language acquisition and variationist sociolinguistic research.