The pragmatic markers anyway, okay, and shame: A South African English corpus study

Pragmatic markers are “a class of short, recurrent linguistic items that generally have little lexical import but serve significant pragmatic functions in conversation” (Andersen 2001:39). While pragmatic markers are receiving growing consideration in the literature, pragmatic markers in South Afric...

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Published in:Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus
Main Authors: Huddlestone, Kate, Fairhurst, Melanie
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Stellenbosch University 2013-12-01
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Online Access:https://spilplus.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/170