The present study evaluates the ongoing development of just as a discourse marker in Tyneside English. To capture the diachronic development of just in real-time, the study focuses on a sample of 34 adolescent speakers from the Diachronic Electronic Corpus of Tyneside English (Corrigan et al.). The results of an accountable analysis of the verb phrase (N = 4,386) show that the depreciatory use of just is increasing across real time, while other uses remain stable. Further investigation reveals a significant association of depreciatory just with narrative discourse contexts. A recent framework of context-modulated multifunctionality (Wiltschko et al.) has been used to postulate the functional development of just as a rhetorical story-telling device. More broadly, this paper contributes to the growing body of discourse markers analyzed through the variationist lens, offering a systematic and replicable methodology that will enable robust comparative analyses of the feature's development across world Englishes.

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只是在泰恩赛德英语

本研究评估了Tyneside 英语中just as 话语标记的持续发展。要捕捉的历时发展刚刚在实时，研究的重点是34个青少年演讲者来自英国泰恩赛德的历时电子语料库样本（科里根等人）。对动词短语 (N = 4,386) 的负责任分析的结果表明，just的贬值使用在实时增加，而其他使用保持稳定。进一步的调查显示贬值的显著协会刚刚与叙述话语情境。上下文调制的多功能的最近的框架（Wiltschko等人）已被用于推断的功能开发刚刚作为修辞讲故事的工具。更广泛地说，本文有助于通过变体主义视角分析越来越多的话语标记，提供一种系统且可复制的方法，可以对世界英语特征的发展进行有力的比较分析。