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Overall this volume is a valuable contribution to the study of discourse markers. The quantitative and qualitative analyses based on extensive corpus material provide innovative findings about the uses of the three discourse markers and their developments over time in the Early Modern English period. The study breaks new ground in historical discourse marker studies by including the importance of text type in the analysis. Moreover the sociopragmatic analysis points to a promising direction for future historical research on discourse markers. The study of discourse markers in new contexts can also contribute to larger pragmatic issues such as ‘what we mean by discourse markers’, their multifunctionality and functional spectrum. — Karin Aijmer, University of Gothenburg, in English Text Construction, Vol. 8:2 (2015)

Ursula Lutzky’s book on discourse markers in Early Modern English has an innovative approach as it uses a sociopragmatically annotated corpus as (part of) its data. The analysis works well and can serve as a model for other researchers. — Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki

This in-depth, scholarly treatment of several Early Modern discourse markers is unsurpassed. By incorporating social factors within its corpus method, it pushes forward the boundaries of both historical corpus linguistics and sociopragmatics. — Jonathan Culpeper, University of Lancaster

The main strength of this book is its systematicity and thoroughness. As good as every decision and comment made by the author regarding the analysis, the results, the method and material, and the theoretical framework are acknowledged and firmly anchored in a substantial background of literature; the reader is made to feel that he or she is in good hands. — Erika Berglind Söderqvist, Uppsala University, in Studia Neophilologica Vol. 89:2 (2017)

I would recommend this book to all scholars interested in socio-historical linguistics, historical pragmatics more generally, and, of course, especially to those interested in discourse markers. — Hildegunn Støle, University of Stavanger, in Journal of Historical Pragmatics Vol. 16:1 (2015)