摘要:

Sort ofis a syntactically flexible pragmatic particle serving a variety of functions in conversation. At a general levelsort offunctions as a device facilitating the smooth flow of the discourse, providing the speaker with verbal planning time. At a more specific level it serves both as an imprecision or approximation signal (epistemic modal meaning) and as an informality and solidarity marker (affective meaning).Differences in the distribution ofsort ofin different corpuses relate most obviously to the context and type of discourse in which participants are engaged. There were few differences between New Zealand women's and men's speech in the total proportions ofsort ofused, though in semi‐formal contexts it was addressed more often to women than to me

ISSN:0039-3193    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9582.1988.tb00788.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0039-3193    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9582.1988.tb00789.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Book reviewed in this article:T. L. BURTON and JILL BURTON (EDS.), Lexicographical and linguistic studies. Essays in honour of G. W. Turner.JAMES R. HURFORD, Language and number. The emergence of a cognitive system.KLAUS SCHUBERT, Metataxis. Contrastive dependency syntax for machine translation.FRANCOIS LATRAVERSE, La pragmatique. Bruxelles: Pierre Mardaga, editeur.MICHAEL McTEAR, Children's conversation.

ISSN:0039-3193    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9582.1988.tb00790.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0039-3193    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9582.1988.tb00791.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1988

数据来源: WILEY