摘要：This attractive and highly readable book contains a finely-nuanced and richly
documented study of a set of discourse particles (DPs) in Modern English, based
on data from the London-Lund Corpus of spoken English, with some comparison
to the Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus of written English and the COLT Corpus
of London teenager speech, where relevant. Covered in detail are the
particles now, oh/ah, just, sort of, actually, and tags such as and that sort of
thing, chosen because of their frequency in the corpus. The book has its genesis
in studies of individual DPs that Karin Aijmer has published over the past fifteen
or more years, though substantially revised and updated. It is a pleasure to
have this work brought together in a unified text.
