Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English

This volume brings together key players in discourse variation research to offer original analyses of a wide range of discourse-pragmatic variables, such as ''like'', ''innit'', ''you get me'', and ''at the end of the day''. The authors introduce a range of new methods specifically tailored to the study of discourse-pragmatic variation and change in synchronic and longitudinal dialect data, and pr...