HIGHLIGHTS
- who: Resumen and collaborators from the University of Seville, Spain have published the paper: THE USE OF WAIT AS A DISCOURSE- PRAGMATIC MARKER IN SPOKEN BRITISH ENGLISH: A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
- what: This study has unveiled two other functions that wait fulfils in British English: alarming and mirativity.
- future: Given the differences in function reported in these two varieties of English it is possible that wait fulfils a different range of functions in other varieties of English which would also be worth exploring in future research.
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