Affiliation:
1. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Filología Inglesa, Cantoblanco , Madrid , Spain
Abstract
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.
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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