Paul Kerswill and Jenny Cheshire- research into Multicultural London English:
-Grammaticalisation in Social Context: common noun 'man', undergone semantic change:
Now a deitic, indefinite pronoun in MLE
-Represent: urban culture, maintains connotations attached to its use as a pragmatic marker = solidarity amongst adolescents, indexes a streetwise persona
http://jennycheshire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/JoS-man.pdf
-Grammaticalisation in Social Context: common noun 'man', undergone semantic change:
Now a deitic, indefinite pronoun in MLE
-Represent: urban culture, maintains connotations attached to its use as a pragmatic marker = solidarity amongst adolescents, indexes a streetwise persona
http://jennycheshire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/JoS-man.pdf
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