This study, an exercise in varietal pragmatics, compares the frequencies and uses of four categories of comment markers – ‘evaluative’, ‘epistemic’, ‘style’, and ‘hearsay’ – across the 20 world Englishes represented in the Global Web-based Corpus of English. Predictions drawn from the models of world Englishes formulated by Kachru, Schneider, and Mair are used to formulate a set of research questions. The possible covariation of comment marker use with levels of textual informality is explored via comparison of the General and Blogs macro-genres of GloWbE. The implications of the findings for the evolutionary development of varieties, their stylistic preferences, areal co-patterning, and directions of intervarietal influence are investigated.

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世界英语中的注释标记

这项研究是一项变体语用学练习，比较了全球基于网络的 20 种世界英语中四类评论标记的频率和使用——“评价”、“认知”、“风格”和“传闻”。英语语料库。从 Kachru、Schneider 和 Mair 制定的世界英语模型中得出的预测被用来制定一组研究问题。通过比较 GloWbE 的 General 和 Blogs 宏类型来探索评论标记使用与文本非正式程度的可能协变。研究了这些发现对品种进化发展、它们的风格偏好、区域共同模式和品种间影响方向的影响。