So who? Like how? Just what? Discourse markers in the conversations of Young Canadians

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 37, Issue 11 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 1896-1915

  Tagliamonte, Sali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Innovation; Intensifiers; Language change; Like; Teenagers

Indexed keywords

EID: 24644486026     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2005.02.017     Document Type: Article

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