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Pragmatic Markers in British English: Meaning in Social Interaction (2016)
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Beeching, K. (2016). Pragmatic Markers in British English: Meaning in Social Interaction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Fundamental to oral fluency, pragmatic markers facilitate the flow of spontaneous, interactional and social conversation. Variously termed ‘hedges’, ‘fumbles’ and ‘conversational greasers’ in earlier academic studies, this book explores the meaning,... Read More about Pragmatic Markers in British English: Meaning in Social Interaction.

Researching Sociopragmatic Variability: Perspectives from Variational, Interlanguage and Contrastive Pragmatics (2015)
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Woodfield, H., & Beeching, K. (Eds.). (2015). Researching Sociopragmatic Variability: Perspectives from Variational, Interlanguage and Contrastive Pragmatics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Researching Sociopragmatic Variability showcases a range of research approaches and brings together new findings from three key areas: variational pragmatics, interlanguage pragmatics and contrastive pragmatics. The volume investigates sociopragmati... Read More about Researching Sociopragmatic Variability: Perspectives from Variational, Interlanguage and Contrastive Pragmatics.

Discourse Functions at the Right and Left Periphery: Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change (2014)
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Beeching, K., & Detges, U. (2014). Discourse Functions at the Right and Left Periphery: Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change. Leiden/Boston: Brill

A basic property of human language is that it unfolds in time; the left and right margin of discourse units do not behave in a symnmetrical fashion. The working hypothesis of this volume is that discourse elements of the left periphery have mainly su... Read More about Discourse Functions at the Right and Left Periphery: Crosslinguistic Investigations of Language Use and Language Change.

Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French (2009)
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Beeching, K., Armstrong, N., & Gadet, F. (. (2009). Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins

This volume, co-edited with France’s foremost sociolinguist, Françoise Gadet (Université de l’Ouest de Paris/Nanterre), and with Nigel Armstrong from the University of Leeds, breaks new ground by bringing together researchers from different tradition... Read More about Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French.