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This collection of papers embodies the dynamism and diversity of the field of pragmatics. Its authors represent ten different countries and exemplify research across all aspects of pragmatics, along with the interrelations between pragmatics proper and such neighboring disciplines as cognitive psychology, philosophy of language, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and communication. Recent theoretical and empirical advances in these fields has motivated scholars to reexamine and revise some of the central tenets of pragmatics, and it is this reexamination which lies at the heart of the papers in this volume.

Cultural deprivation has been found to affect the acquisition, development, and utilization of language for the child. Social class, home and environmental variables are among the most significant as underlying dimensions of language patterns. Their influences are considered and discussed,
as is language, as a series of conditioned responses reinforced in the developmental process.

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