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Prosodic modeling and position analysis of pragmatic markers in English conversation

  • Jesús Romero-Trillo EMAIL logo
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 7. April 2018

Abstract

The objective of this article is to investigate the use of three of the most frequent pragmatic markers in English conversation in the London-Lund Corpus, i.e. “well”, “you know” and “I mean”. Specifically, the aim is to study the characteristics of the prosodic patterns and the Tone Unit position in the realization of pragmatic functions by the markers. The article combines the thorough analysis of the corpus data with the description of the function of these elements in the realization of Adaptive Context within the Dynamic Model of Meaning approach to pragmatics and communication.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the Journal editor and the anonymous referees for their insightful comments on the initial version of the manuscript.

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Published Online: 2018-4-7
Published in Print: 2018-4-25

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