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Publication details [#64904]

D'Arcy, Alexandra, Martina Wiltschko and Derek Denis. 2018. Deconstructing variation in pragmatic function: A transdisciplinary case study. Language in Society 47 (4) : 569–599.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | discourse marker | pragmatic function | speech act | speech community

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper proposes a case study to elucidate that deconstructing a discourse-pragmatic marker into its composite segments discloses evident criteria for disambiguating its main function and its contextually deduced functions. A transdisciplinary lens is used.