Book contents
- The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in English
- The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in English
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Pragmatic Markers: Synchronic and Diachronic
- Part I From Lexical Item to Pragmatic Marker
- Part II From Clausal Construction to Pragmatic Marker
- 5 Epistemic Parentheticals
- 6 I/You Admit and Admittedly
- 7 Forms of Say: That Said and I’m Just Saying
- 8 Two Politeness Parentheticals: If I May Say So and For What It’s Worth
- 9 What’s More and Whatever
- 10 Concluding Remarks: Pathways of Change
- Appendix: Corpora and Text Collections
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
9 - What’s More and Whatever
from Part II - From Clausal Construction to Pragmatic Marker
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2017
- The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in English
- The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in English
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Pragmatic Markers: Synchronic and Diachronic
- Part I From Lexical Item to Pragmatic Marker
- Part II From Clausal Construction to Pragmatic Marker
- 5 Epistemic Parentheticals
- 6 I/You Admit and Admittedly
- 7 Forms of Say: That Said and I’m Just Saying
- 8 Two Politeness Parentheticals: If I May Say So and For What It’s Worth
- 9 What’s More and Whatever
- 10 Concluding Remarks: Pathways of Change
- Appendix: Corpora and Text Collections
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Evolution of Pragmatic Markers in EnglishPathways of Change, pp. 251 - 283Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017