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General Extenders - The Forms and Functions of a New Linguistic Category (Hardcover)
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General Extenders - The Forms and Functions of a New Linguistic Category (Hardcover)
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General extenders are phrases like 'or something', 'and
everything', 'and things (like that)', 'and stuff (like that)', and
'and so on'. Although they are an everyday feature of spoken
language, are crucial in successful interpersonal communication,
and have multiple functions in discourse, they have so far gone
virtually unnoticed in linguistics. This pioneering work provides a
comprehensive description of this new linguistic category. It
offers new insights into ongoing changes in contemporary English,
the effect of grammaticalization, novel uses as associative plural
markers and indicators of intertextuality, and the metapragmatic
role of extenders in interaction. The forms and functions of
general extenders are presented clearly and accessibly, enabling
students to understand a number of different frameworks of analysis
in discourse-pragmatic studies. From an applied perspective, the
book presents a description of translation equivalents, an analysis
of second language variation, and practical exercises for teaching
second language learners of English.
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