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Chapter 8. The final particle like in Northern English

A particle of reformulation in the context of interenunciative readjustment
  • Sylvie Hancil
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Studies at the Grammar-Discourse Interface
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Abstract

The study of the use of quotative like has been the object of increasing interest from linguists over the last two decades (see Romaine & Lange 1991; Buchstaller 2002, among others) as it is a recent and global phenomenon. By contrast, final like is more established and restricted to varieties in the British Isles. It is possible to further this research by relying on the NECTE corpus (Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English), since in Northern English, especially in Newcastle English, the particle is developing a new function of discourse marker; it is associated with semantic values of anaphor, cataphor, intensifier and filler. The final position of the marker can be held responsible for the development of a significant number of interactional forces between speaker and co-speaker, which reveal the discursive strategy of the speaker towards the co-speaker (Pomerantz 1984). The study will be complemented by the analysis of the final particle like in the light of Brown & Levinson (1987)’s politeness theory and it will be shown that its use is a combination of negative and positive politeness within the utterance.

Abstract

The study of the use of quotative like has been the object of increasing interest from linguists over the last two decades (see Romaine & Lange 1991; Buchstaller 2002, among others) as it is a recent and global phenomenon. By contrast, final like is more established and restricted to varieties in the British Isles. It is possible to further this research by relying on the NECTE corpus (Newcastle Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English), since in Northern English, especially in Newcastle English, the particle is developing a new function of discourse marker; it is associated with semantic values of anaphor, cataphor, intensifier and filler. The final position of the marker can be held responsible for the development of a significant number of interactional forces between speaker and co-speaker, which reveal the discursive strategy of the speaker towards the co-speaker (Pomerantz 1984). The study will be complemented by the analysis of the final particle like in the light of Brown & Levinson (1987)’s politeness theory and it will be shown that its use is a combination of negative and positive politeness within the utterance.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Grammar, discourse, and the grammar-discourse interface 1
  4. Part I. Discourse markers
  5. Chapter 1. On the rise of discourse markers 23
  6. Chapter 2. On the pragmatic development of modal particles in Navarrese-Lapurdian Basque 57
  7. Chapter 3. On divergent paths and functions of ‘background’-based discourse markers in Korean 77
  8. Chapter 4. Reanalysis and the emergence of adverbial connectors in the history of Japanese 101
  9. Part II. Discourse markers
  10. Chapter 5. The meaning and functions of French je pense (que) 127
  11. Chapter 6. Discourse markers and brain lateralization 157
  12. Chapter 7. Vietnamese expletive between grammatical subject and subjectivity marker 195
  13. Chapter 8. The final particle like in Northern English 229
  14. Chapter 9. On pragma-semantics of expressives 245
  15. Part III. Discourse-related grammatical phenomena
  16. Chapter 10. A just amazing marker in French: “Juste” 275
  17. Chapter 11. On how the distinction between reciprocal and collective verbs affects (anti-)control 299
  18. Chapter 12. The rise of cause/reason adverbial markers in Yaqui (Uto-Aztecan) 313
  19. Index 353
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.219.08han

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Grammar, discourse, and the grammar-discourse interface 1
  4. Part I. Discourse markers
  5. Chapter 1. On the rise of discourse markers 23
  6. Chapter 2. On the pragmatic development of modal particles in Navarrese-Lapurdian Basque 57
  7. Chapter 3. On divergent paths and functions of ‘background’-based discourse markers in Korean 77
  8. Chapter 4. Reanalysis and the emergence of adverbial connectors in the history of Japanese 101
  9. Part II. Discourse markers
  10. Chapter 5. The meaning and functions of French je pense (que) 127
  11. Chapter 6. Discourse markers and brain lateralization 157
  12. Chapter 7. Vietnamese expletive between grammatical subject and subjectivity marker 195
  13. Chapter 8. The final particle like in Northern English 229
  14. Chapter 9. On pragma-semantics of expressives 245
  15. Part III. Discourse-related grammatical phenomena
  16. Chapter 10. A just amazing marker in French: “Juste” 275
  17. Chapter 11. On how the distinction between reciprocal and collective verbs affects (anti-)control 299
  18. Chapter 12. The rise of cause/reason adverbial markers in Yaqui (Uto-Aztecan) 313
  19. Index 353
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