Discourse-pragmatic variation in context: eight hundred years of LIKE

Like' is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. This volume explores the various contexts of 'like', each of which contributes to the reality of contemporary vernaculars: its historical conte...

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1. Verfasser: D'Arcy, Alexandra 1972- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company [2017]
Schriftenreihe:Studies in language companion series volume 187
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Zusammenfassung:Like' is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. This volume explores the various contexts of 'like', each of which contributes to the reality of contemporary vernaculars: its historical context, its developmental context, its social context, and its ideological context. The final chapter examines the ways in which these contexts overlap and inform current understanding of acquisition, structure, change, and embedding. The volume also features an extensive appendix, containing numerous examples of 'like' in its pragmatic functions from a range of English corpora, both diachronic and synchronic. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars of English historical linguistics, grammaticalization, language variation and change, discourse-pragmatics and the interface of these fields with formal linguistic theory
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [177]-200
2003 erschienen als Dissertation: "Like: syntax and development"
Beschreibung:XX, 235 Seiten Diagramme
ISBN:9789027259523

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