The Rise of Discourse Markers, by Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva and Haiping Long, is an outstanding reference work for any linguist interested in discourse and language change. It provides a review of the scattered literature describing the role and evolution of discourse markers (henceforth DMs) in several languages, as well as a clear synthesis of the most recent developments in the theories of language change. Even though DMs are indispensable, pervasive tools in everyday conversations, they had been neglected by several generations of grammarians, before becoming a vibrant field of study in the past three decades. The functions of DMs are notoriously difficult to investigate, which has led linguists to develop new analytical frameworks. The various, overlapping terminologies and concepts that have emerged to account for the behaviour of DMsmake the literature particularly challenging to unravel. This challenge was successfully taken up by the four authors, and The Rise of DiscourseMarkerswill answermany questions of any researcher who has been waiting for a work making sense of the heterogeneous contributions to the field. The book contains the following five sections:

中文翻译：

---

Bernd Heine、Gunther Kaltenböck、Tania Kuteva 和 Haiping Long，话语标记的兴起。剑桥：剑桥大学出版社，2021 年。十一 + 308。

Bernd Heine、Gunther Kaltenböck、Tania Kuteva 和 Haiping Long 所著的《话语标记的兴起》对于任何对话语和语言变化感兴趣的语言学家来说都是一本出色的参考书。它回顾了描述话语标记（以下简称 DM）在几种语言中的作用和演变的分散文献，并清晰地综合了语言变化理论的最新发展。尽管 DM 是日常对话中不可或缺的普遍工具，但在过去 30 年成为一个充满活力的研究领域之前，它们一直被几代语法学家所忽视。众所周知，DM 的功能难以研究，这导致语言学家开发新的分析框架。各种种类，为解释 DM 的行为而出现的重叠术语和概念使得文献特别难以解开。四位作者成功接受了这一挑战，话语标记的兴起将回答任何研究人员的许多问题，他们一直在等待一项能够理解对该领域的异质贡献的工作。本书包含以下五个部分：