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A corpus-based study of pragmatic markers in London English
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April 12, 2011
Abstract
This article analyses the use of particular pragmatic markers in two corpora of spoken London English: the Linguistic Innovators Corpus (LIC) and the Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT). We found variation according to sex, ethnicity and geographical location, with a different distribution for each pragmatic marker. The innovative pragmatic marker you get me was most frequent among male non-Anglo Hackney residents, indicating innovation in inner London. We argue that a number of pragmatic markers, most notably you get me, should be regarded as elements of Multicultural London English, along with other features that have already been documented.
Keywords.: sociolinguistics; pragmatic markers; language and ethnicity; linguistic innovation; spoken language; Multicultural London English
Published Online: 2011-04-12
Published in Print: 2011-May
© 2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/New York
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Keywords for this article
sociolinguistics;
pragmatic markers;
language and ethnicity;
linguistic innovation;
spoken language;
Multicultural London English
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