Publications

Publication details [#53041]

Lin, Chia-Yen. 2010. ‘… that's actually sort of you know trying to get consultants in …’: Functions and multifunctionality of modifiers in academic lectures. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (5) : 1173–1183.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | function | genre | modifier | pragmatic function

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study examines how pragmatic force modifiers (PMF's) are used to accomplish multiple functions (i.e. textual, interpersonal and ideational) in the British Academic Spoken English (BASE) lecture corpus. The study both displays genre-defined functions and multifunctionality of PFMs in academic lectures, so there is no irrevocable correlation between forms and functions.