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A number of recent research studies (Müller 2005, Fung and Carter 2007, Denke 2009, Liao 2009, Aijmer 2011, Wei 2011, Liu 2013) have investigated non-native usages of pragmatic markers (henceforth PMs — these are sometimes known as discourse markers (DMs), and the term PMs will be used in this chapter interchangeably with DMs) in speakers of different L1s, at different levels of competence, in different contexts and using different methods to collect their data. These are tabulated in Table 8.1.
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Beeching, K. (2015). Variability in Native and Non-Native Use of Pragmatic Markers: the Example of Well in Role-Play Data. In: Beeching, K., Woodfield, H. (eds) Researching Sociopragmatic Variability. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137373953_8
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