Review of Elizabeth C. Traugott. 2022. Discourse Structuring Markers in English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, xviii+274 pp. ISBN 978-90-272-1091-3

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Foong Ha Yap

Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Email: foonghayap@cuhk.edu.cn
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7831-0522

Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Her research focuses on the development of pragmatic markers. She has numerous publications in peer reviewed journals including Diachronica, Discourse & Society, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, Journal of Pragmatics, Text & Talk among others.

Shenzhen, China

Mikyung Ahn

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

Email: mkahn@hufs.ac.kr
ORCID iD: 0009-0007-1464-3276

Associate Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, where she received her PhD in Linguistics in 2009. Her research interests include language change, discourse analysis, and cognitive-functional linguistics, with a focus on the development of discourse markers and their functions from both pragmatic and typological perspectives. Her work has been published in Diachronica, Journal of Pragmatics, Lingua and Text & Talk./ among others.

Seoul, Republic of Korea

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