Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English: New Methods and Insights
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 213892-153386-1281
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1017/CBO9781107295476
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107055766
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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C - English Language and Linguistics
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Pichler is sole editor of this volume, responsible for the selection, peer review and editing of those chapters which were eventually accepted as original and rigorous enough to be published. The introductory chapter reviews the methodological and analytical approaches advocated by the contributors, highlighting new insights into the mechanisms underlying discourse-pragmatic variation and change (which still continues to be considerably under-researched in the field by comparison to other aspects of the grammar). Pichler’s own chapter in the volume (3) investigates linguistic innovations in Multilcultural London English by her innovative analysis of the reduced negative-polarity interrogative tags (particularly innit which Pichler’s research finds to be rapidly innovating in this variety). The account considerably improves our understanding of the life cycle of discourse-pragmatic change, providing a diachronic benchmark for future studies of negative-polarity interrogative tags not just in Multicultural London English but in British Isles varieties more broadly.
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