Positioning the self and others: linguistic perspectives

In: Pragmatics & beyond

Abstract

3.2 A diachronic problem: The evolution of no doubt and surely within the VAM4. Conclusions; Acknowledgment; References; Author query; Chapter 6. Metacommenting in English and French: A variational pragmatics approach; 1. Introduction; 2. Background/literature review; 2.1 Subjectivity and PMs; 2.2 Identity, indexicality and PMs; 2.3 From variationist to variational; 2.4 Metacommenting in English and French; 3. Data and methods; 3.1 The corpora investigated; 3.2 Raw rates of occurrence per 10,000 words; 3.3 Classifying the markers into functional sub-types; 4. Findings; 5. Conclusions