Contrastive Corpus Studies of Pragmatic Markers

Abstract The articles in this special issue account for the use of pragmatic markers a variety languages by taking contrastive approach and applying corpus methodology. This introduction article describes these notions way they are manifested each contribution. studies contribute to fledging field pragmatics, which encompasses investigations phenomena comparing usage across or within languages. Contrastive aim uncover differences similarities observable language along different dimensions, most notably varieties same language, structurally conceptually domains (or combinations these). explore how contextual factors have bearing upon variation that compared.