“I might, I might go I mean it depends on money things and stuff”. A preliminary analysis of general extenders in British teenagers’ discourse☆
Section snippets
Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez obtained his Ph.D. in English in 1992 from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Since 1995 he has been working as associate professor in the English Department of the same university. At present he is the principal investigator of a research project concerned with the description of spoken English according to text-type and with the study of English speech from the perspective of teaching and learning. He was also Head of the University's Modern
References (78)
What are discourse markers?
Journal of Pragmatics
(1999)‘And stuff’ and ‘und so’: investigating pragmatic expressions in English and German
Journal of Pragmatics
(2005)- et al.
‘You know’, ‘eh’ and other ‘exasperating expressions’: an analysis of social and stylistic variation in the use of pragmatic devices in a sample of New Zealand English
Language and Communication
(1995) ‘So who? Like how? Just what?’ Discourse markers in the conversations of young Canadians
Journal of Pragmatics
(2005)- et al.
The semantics and pragmatics of ‘and everything’
Journal of Pragmatics
(1993) What happens at the end of our utterances? The use of utterance final introduced by ‘and’ and ‘or’
- (2002)
The pragmatic marker like from a relevance-theoretic perspective
The role of the pragmatic marker like in utterance interpretation
- et al.
Bad Language
(1990)
Forschungsperspektiven auf Jugendsprache: ein integrativer Überblick
Grammaticalization in young people's language: the case of German
Discourse Constructions of Youth Identities
Language change under way? The case of the definite article in modern Greek
La variation sociolinguistique dans le lexique français
Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie
Longman Grammar of Written and Spoken English
Lists in letters: elided NP-lists and general extenders in early English correspondence
Historical English phraseology and the extender tag
Selim
Cambridge Grammar of English. A Comprehensive Guide
Vague Language
Variation in an English Dialect
Discourse variation, grammaticalisation and ‘stuff like that’
Journal of Sociolinguistics
Los elementos de final de serie enumerativa del tipo ‘y todo eso, o cosas así, y tal etc’. Perspectiva interactiva
Boletín de Lingüística
The development of linguistic constraints: phonological innovations in St. John's
Language Variation and Change
Variation in discourse and ‘stuff like that’
Language in Society
Extension particles, etc
Language Variation and Change
Adolescent social structure and the spread of linguistic change
Language in Society
Linguistic Variation as Social Practice
An Analysis of Set-Marking Tags in the English Language. Dissertation
Grammaticalization in progress; the case of ‘or something.’
Introduction
Daigaku Koogi ni okeru kotoba no danjosa [Gender differences in language use in university lectures]
Kotoba
Grammaticalization
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
List-construction as a task and resource
Cited by (33)
German, Spanish and Mandarin speakers' metapragmatic awareness of vague language compared
2019, Journal of PragmaticsCitation Excerpt :Moving on to variation, the most rapidly developing area of English VL research in recent years has been in settings: academic (Rowland, 2007; Ruzaité, 2007), medical (Adolphs et al., 2007; Tseng and Zhang, 2018), legal (Cotterill, 2007; Li, 2017) and offices (Koester, 2007). Other variables explored are gender, social class, (Cheshire, 2007; Levey, 2012), age (Lin, 2013; Palacios Martínez, 2011), and depth of relationship (Cutting, 2000). Most research has tended to focus on isolated variables, whereas in reality variables overlap.
“Help me move to that, blood”. A corpus-based study of the syntax and pragmatics of vocatives in the language of British teenagers
2018, Journal of PragmaticsCitation Excerpt :The language of teenagers has been studied extensively over recent decades (Bucholtz, 2000; Stenström et al., 2002; Stenström, 2014; Androutsopoulos and Georgakopoulou, 2003; Stenström and Jørgensen, 2009; Zimmerman, 2009; Palacios Martínez, 2011a; Spiegel and Gysin, 2016; Tagliamonte, 2016), not least because teenagers are widely considered to be prime language innovators and precursors of linguistic change (Eckert, 1988; Tagliamonte, 2016). Furthermore, their expression differs in many respects from that of adults, which makes it particularly interesting from a sociolinguistic perspective (Palacios Martínez, 2011a, 2011b; Tagliamonte, 2016). In addition, teenagers constitute an important sector of society in its own right, one which merits attention and understanding (Androutsopoulos and Georgakopoulou, 2003).
Discourse-pragmatic variation in Paris French and London English: Insights from general extenders
2017, Journal of PragmaticsCitation Excerpt :The item to which the GE is attached (its antecedent) usually consists of a word or a clause, which can be nominal (such as potes and boys below), but also verbal, adjectival and adverbial, as will be shown further.In studies of GEs, a focus of recent research has been to explore their pragmatic functions and evolution in informal spoken language. Studies have increasingly begun to view them as discourse particles, rather than solely as expressions with a referential – or a “set-marking” – function (Dubois, 1992, 1993; Overstreet and Yule, 1997; Cheshire, 2007; Tagliamonte and Denis, 2010; Pichler and Levey, 2011; Palacios-Martinez, 2011; Aijmer, 2013; Overstreet, 2014). Despite the widespread recent interest, however, the GE literature has predominantly focused on varieties of English, with very few comparable studies in other world languages.
Dingsbums und so: Beliefs about German vague language
2015, Journal of PragmaticsCitation Excerpt :It varies according to the variety of English, and also according to the first language background of the speaker. As far as world Englishes are concerned, differences have been discovered in American English (Fernandez and Yuldashev, 2011; Overstreet, 1999), Canadian English (Tagliamonte and Denis, 2010), New Zealand English (Terraschke, 2007), Australian English (Dines, 1980), British English (Channell, 1994; Cheshire, 2007; Palacios Martínez, 2011; Pichler and Levey, 2011) and six varieties in the International Corpus of English (Aijmer, 2013:131–137). These studies will be discussed in relation to social variation: see section 2.4.
The English general extender
2020, English Today
Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez obtained his Ph.D. in English in 1992 from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Since 1995 he has been working as associate professor in the English Department of the same university. At present he is the principal investigator of a research project concerned with the description of spoken English according to text-type and with the study of English speech from the perspective of teaching and learning. He was also Head of the University's Modern Language Centre between 2007 and 2010 and Secretary of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN) from 2004 to 2009.
- ☆
This corresponds to an example taken from the COLT corpus, document code number B132101/226.