The Relevance of World Englishes for Variationist Sociolinguistics

D’Arcy, Alexandra

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“…Finally, I wish to look beyond these results and briefly reflect on where the current analysis is situated with regard to the study of discourse markers in world Englishes. While much of the work on discourse‐pragmatic variation and change has focused on Inner Circle Englishes, D'Arcy (2019, p. 452) has recently argued that the global status of English is ‘a critical access point in the development of an empirical theory of language change’, stressing that world Englishes provide an ideal window for examining questions inherent to the variationist enterprise. The ability to gain this sort of insight into longitudinal processes of variation and change, however, relies heavily on producing comparable results from replicable methodologies, a task that is notoriously difficult when studying discourse features (Pichler, 2010).…”

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Justin Tyneside English

Woolford

2021

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The present study evaluates the ongoing development of just as a discourse marker in Tyneside English. To capture the diachronic development of just in real‐time, the study focuses on a sample of 34 adolescent speakers from the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (Corrigan et al.). The results of an accountable analysis of the verb phrase (N = 4,386) show that the depreciatory use of just is increasing across real time, while other uses remain stable. Further investigation reveals a significant association of depreciatory just with narrative discourse contexts. A recent framework of context‐modulated multifunctionality (Wiltschko et al.) has been used to postulate the functional development of just as a rhetorical story‐telling device. More broadly, this paper contributes to the growing body of discourse markers analyzed through the variationist lens, offering a systematic and replicable methodology that will enable robust comparative analyses of the feature's development across world Englishes.

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Justin Tyneside English

Woolford

2021

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The Relevance of World Englishes for Variationist Sociolinguistics

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