Esther Asprey

List of John Benjamins publications in which Esther Asprey is involved.

Article

Asprey, Esther and Caroline Tagg 2019 The pragmatic use of vocatives in private one-to-one digital communication Internet Pragmatics 2:1, pp. 83–111 | Article

This article examines a corpus of private text messages collected in Birmingham and surrounding towns in 2015. We look specifically at pragmatic roles played by the vocatives we find in the corpus. Since text messages are sent to targeted recipients, vocatives are structurally redundant, and we… read more