The Use of Wait as a Discourse-Pragmatic Marker in Spoken British English
Discourse-pragmatic markers—DPMs—have attracted much scholarly attention over the years since they play an important role in our daily lives. Most of them have been analysed by scholars. However, in this paper, I focus on one of these units, wait, a DPM which, with the exception of Tagliamonte (Wai...
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Discourse-pragmatic markers—DPMs—have attracted much scholarly attention over the years since they play an important role in our daily lives. Most of them have been analysed by scholars. However, in this paper, I focus on one of these units, wait, a DPM which, with the exception of Tagliamonte (Wait, It’s a Discourse Marker) in the Canadian context, has been largely neglected. I follow a corpus-based approach, examining data from spoken British English extracted from the BNC2014. The study offers new light on the uses and functions of this DPM in the British English context and allows a comparison with the Canadian English data examined by Tagliamonte (Wait, It’s a Discourse Marker).
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| spelling | doaj-art-e2024a403c4e4ee4b8ba6a83c670886b2025-08-19T20:02:38ZengUniversidad de JaénThe Grove1137-005X2386-54312022-12-012910.17561/grove.v29.7268The Use of Wait as a Discourse-Pragmatic Marker in Spoken British EnglishNazaret Camacho Salas0University of Seville Discourse-pragmatic markers—DPMs—have attracted much scholarly attention over the years since they play an important role in our daily lives. Most of them have been analysed by scholars. However, in this paper, I focus on one of these units, wait, a DPM which, with the exception of Tagliamonte (Wait, It’s a Discourse Marker) in the Canadian context, has been largely neglected. I follow a corpus-based approach, examining data from spoken British English extracted from the BNC2014. The study offers new light on the uses and functions of this DPM in the British English context and allows a comparison with the Canadian English data examined by Tagliamonte (Wait, It’s a Discourse Marker). https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/grove/article/view/7268Discourse-pragmatic MarkerSpeechWait as a Discourse-pragmatic MarkerCanadian ContextBritish ContextCorpus-based Study |
| spellingShingle | Nazaret Camacho Salas The Use of Wait as a Discourse-Pragmatic Marker in Spoken British English Discourse-pragmatic Marker Speech Wait as a Discourse-pragmatic Marker Canadian Context British Context Corpus-based Study |
| title | The Use of Wait as a Discourse-Pragmatic Marker in Spoken British English |
| title_full | The Use of Wait as a Discourse-Pragmatic Marker in Spoken British English |
| title_fullStr | The Use of Wait as a Discourse-Pragmatic Marker in Spoken British English |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Use of Wait as a Discourse-Pragmatic Marker in Spoken British English |
| title_short | The Use of Wait as a Discourse-Pragmatic Marker in Spoken British English |
| title_sort | use of wait as a discourse pragmatic marker in spoken british english |
| topic | Discourse-pragmatic Marker Speech Wait as a Discourse-pragmatic Marker Canadian Context British Context Corpus-based Study |
| url | https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/grove/article/view/7268 |
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