The prevalent hypothesis in research on pragmatic markers suggests that the left periphery of an utterance attracts predominantly subjective meanings, whereas the right periphery is the locus of intersubjective meanings. The goal of this paper is to test this hypothesis for but as used in a dataset of spoken Glaswegian English, a variety in which but may occur in both left- and right-peripheral positions. Considering that but derives its discursive meaning not per se , but from its embeddedness in particularized contexts, the methodological framework integrates the notion of (inter)subjectivity with the interactional-sociolinguistic concept of contextualization cue to identify (inter)subjective patterned co-occurrences for but . A fine-grained analysis of the patterns but forms with subjective and intersubjective cues in its local linguistic context shows that discourse patterns of left-peripheral but tend to foreground subjective meanings, while discourse patterns of right-peripheral but tend to foreground more intersubjective meanings, supporting the hypothesis of peripheral asymmetry.

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（间）主体性的模式

语用标记研究中的普遍假设表明，话语的左边缘主要吸引主观意义，而右边缘则是主体间意义的所在地。本文的目标是测试这个假设，但正如在格拉斯哥英语口语数据集中使用的那样，这种假设可能出现在左右周边位置。考虑到它的话语意义不是本身，而是从其嵌入特定语境中得出的，方法论框架将（间）主观性的概念与语境化线索的交互社会语言学概念相结合，以识别（间）主观模式共现：目标 。