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Members of ISLE can choose to create a brief profile of their current research activities for publication on our website. Each profile may contain up to 5 'themes', and each theme may include any number of keywords.
We aim for this page to be a showcase of research in English Linguistics. It will enable members to get in touch with others working on related research topics.
Discourse-pragmatic variation and change
Variation and change in the use of discourse-pragmatic features such as question tags; discourse pragmatic effects in relation to syntactic phenomena
- Expires after: 01-01-2200
- Keywords: Discourse-pragmatic,Variation,Language Change
English historical syntax, in relation to Information Structure and Discourse.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ans-Van-Kemenade
- Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ans-Van-Kemenade
- Expires after: 30-09-2028
- Keywords: Information Structure,Discourse-pragmatic,Syntax,Diachronic Variation,Diachronic Linguistics
Recent change
Explaining a recent use of so in spoken British English, namely as a discourse marker conveying acceptance of an invitation to take the floor and give an explanation.
- Website: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/157756869/Explanatory_so_pre_publication_.pdf
- Expires after: 01-01-2025
- Keywords: Discourse-pragmatic,Diachronic Variation,Recent Change,Prescriptivism,Syntax