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Pragmatic markers in English as a Lingua Franca: A corpus study

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the pragmatic marker like displays a certain level of grammaticality in ELF discourse, as it does in native English interactions, and, additionally, to explore the potential different roles of the pragmatic marker like in English as a Lingua Franca communication. The examples of the pragmatic marker were taken from the Vienna Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) and the findings lead to the conclusion that like has indeed grammaticalized in English as a Lingua Franca. Considering similar past research and current observations in the VOICE corpus, five different categories of the marker like were established on the basis of functions it performs in a given example: hedges, illustratives, quotatives, fillers and independent use of like. Each of the categories was then analysed in further detail considering the setting in which it occurs, as well as the age and gender distribution of speakers using it.

English as a Lingua Franca; pragmatic markers; like; pragmaticization; corpus

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