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FOUNDATIONAL PUBLICATIONS IN DISCOURSE-PRAGMATIC VARIATION AND CHANGE

The list below has been compiled by the DiPVaC steering committee, and is regularly updated. Should you have any suggestions for this list, please feel free to email us at dipvac.network@gmail.com
Aijmer, Karin (2002). English discourse particles: Evidence from a corpus. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.

Aijmer, Karin (2013). Understanding pragmatic markers: A variational pragmatic approach. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press.

Andersen, Gisle (2014). Pragmatic borrowing. Journal of Pragmatics, 67, 17-33.

Andersen, Gisle, Furiassi, Cristiano & Mišić Ilić, Biljana (Eds.). (2017). The pragmatics of borrowing: Investigating the role of discourse and social context in language contact [Special issue]. Journal of Pragmatics, 113.

Andersen, Gisle (2001). Pragmatic markers and sociolinguistic variation: A relevance-theoretic approach to the language of adolescents. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins.

Beeching, Kate (2016). Pragmatic markers in British English: Meaning in social interaction. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Brinton, Laurel J. (1996). Pragmatic markers in English. Grammaticalization and discourse function. Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter.

Brinton, Laurel J. (2008). The comment clause in English: syntactic origins and pragmatic development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Brinton, Laurel J. (2017). The evolution of pragmatic markers in English: Pathways of change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Brody, Jill (1987). Particles borrowed from Spanish as discourse markers in Mayan languages. Anthropological Linguistics, 29, 507-521.

Cameron, Richard (1998). A variable syntax of speech, gesture, and sound effect: Direct quotations in Spanish. Language Variation and Change, 10(1), 43-83.

Cheshire, Jenny (1981). Variation in the use of ain’t in an urban British English dialect. Language in Society, 10(2), 365-381.

Cheshire, Jenny (2007). Discourse variation, grammaticalisation and stuff like that. Journal of Sociolinguistics 11, 155-193.

Fedriani, Chiara, Sansó, Andrea (Eds.). (2017). Pragmatic markers, discourse markers and modal particles: New perspectives. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins.

Crible, Ludivine (2018). Discourse markers and (dis)fluency. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins.

D’Arcy, Alexandra (2005). Like: Syntax and development. (Unpublished doctoral disseration). University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

D’Arcy, Alexandra (2017). Discourse-pragmatic variation in context: Eight hundred years of like. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins.

Dines, Elizabeth R. (1980). Variation in discourse: ‘And stuff like that’. Language in Society, 9(1), 13-31.

Dubois, Sylvie (1992). Extension particles, etc. Language Variation and Change, 4, 179-203.

Fischer, Kerstin (Ed.). (2006). Approaches to discourse particles. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.

Furkó, Péter, Kertész, András, Abuczki, Ágnes. (2019). Discourse markers in different types of reporting. In Alessandro Capone, Manuel García-Carpintero, Alessandra Falzone (Eds.), Indirect reports and pragmatics in the world languages (pp. 243-276). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Furkó, Péter (2017). Manipulative uses of pragmatic markers in political discourse. Palgrave Communications, 3(17054).

Heine, Bernd (2013). On discourse markers: Grammaticalization, pragmaticalization, or something else? Linguistics, 51(6), 1205–1247.

Hellermann, John & Vergun, Andrea (2007). Language which is not taught: The discourse marker use of beginning adult learners of English. Journal of Pragmatics, 39(1), 157–179.

Hopper, Paul J. (1987). Emergent grammar. In Jon Aske, Natasha Beery, Laura Michaelis, and Hana Filip (Eds.), Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 13: 139-157. Berkeley, California: Berkeley Linguistics Society.

Labov, William (1972). Language in the inner city. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Lemieux, Monique, Fontaine, Carmen & Sankoff, David. (1986). Quantifieur et marqueur de discours. In David Sankoff (Ed.), Diversity and diachrony (pp. 381-390). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins.

Levey, Stephen (2006). The sociolinguistic distribution of discourse marker 'like' in preadolescent speech. Multilingua, 25, 413–441.

Levey, Stephen, Groulx, Karine & Roy, Joseph (2013). A variationist perspective on discourse-pragmatic change in a contact setting. Language Variation and Change, 25(2), 225-251.

Macaulay, Ronald (2005). Talk that counts: age, gender, and social class differences in discourse: Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Maschler, Yael & Schiffrin, Deborah (2015). Discourse markers: Language, meaning and context. In Deborah Tannen, Heidi E. Hamilton and Deborah Schiffrin (Eds.), The handbook of discourse analysis (2nd ed) (pp. 189-221). Malden, MA: Wile Blackwell.

Matras, Yaron (2009). Language contact. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Meyerhoff, Miriam (1994). Sound pretty ethnic, eh? A pragmatic particle in New Zealand. Language in Society, 23(3), 367-388.

Miller, Jim & Weinert, Regina (1995). The function of LIKE in dialogue. Journal of Pragmatics, 23, 365–393.

Moore, Emma & Podesva, Robert (2009). Style, indexicality, and the social meaning of tag questions. Language in Society, 38(4), 447-485.

Müller, Simone (2005). Discourse markers in native and non-native English discourse. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins.

Pichler, Heike & Levey, Stephen (2011). In search of grammaticalization in synchronic dialect data: General extenders in northeast England. English Language and Linguistics 15(3), 441-471.

Pichler, Heike (2010). Methods in discourse variation analysis: Reflections on the way forward. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 14, 581-608.

Pichler, Heike (2013). The structure of discourse-pragmatic variation. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins.

Pichler, Heike (Ed.) (2016). Discourse-pragmatic variation and change in English. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Sankoff, Gillian (1980) Above and beyond phonology in variable rules. In Gillian Sankoff (Ed.), The social life of language (pp. 81-93). Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Sankoff, Gillian, Thibault, Pierette, Nagy, Naomi, Blondeau, Hélène, Fonollosa, Marie-Odile & Gagnon, Lucie (1997). Variation in the use of discourse markers in a language contact situation. Language Variation and Change, 9, 191–218.

Schiffrin, Deborah (1987). Discourse markers. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Schourup, Lawrence (1999). Discourse markers: Tutorial overview. Lingua, 107, 227–265.

Stenström, Anna-Brita, Andersen, Gisle, & Hasund, Ingrid Kristine (2002). Trends in teenage talk: corpus compilation, analysis, and findings. Amsterdam; Philadephia: John Benjamins.

Stubbe, Maria & Holmes, Janet (1995). You know, eh, and other exasperating expressions: An analysis of social and stylistic varaition in the use of pragmatic particles in a sample of New Zealand English. Language and Communication, 15(1), 63-88.

Tagliamonte, Sali A. & Denis, Derek (2010). The stuff of change: General extenders in Toronto, Canada. Journal of English Linguistics, 38(4), 335–368.

Tagliamonte, Sali A., D'Arcy, Alexandra & Rodríguez-Louro, Celeste (2016). Outliers, impact and rationalization in linguistic change. Language, 92(4), 824-849.

Traugott, Elizabeth Closs & Dasher, Richard B. (2002). The development of adverbials with discourse marker function. In Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Richard B. Dasher (Eds.), Regularity in semantic change (pp. 152-189). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Traugott, Elizabeth Closs (1995). The role of the development of discourse markers in a theory of grammaticalization. 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Manchester, August 1995. Retreived from https://web.stanford.edu/~traugott/ect-papersonline.html

Travis, Catherine E. (2005). Discourse markers in Colombian Spanish: A study in polysemy. Berlin, Germany: Mouton de Gruyter.

Vincent, Diane & Sankoff, David (1992). Punctors: A pragmatic variable. Language Variation and Change, 4(2), 205-216.

Wagner, Suzanne Evans, Hesson, Ashley & Little, Heidi M. (2016). The use of referential general extenders across registers. In Heike Pichler (Ed.), Discourse-pragmatic variation and change in English (pp. 211-231). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
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​Last updated: 8 February 2022