• Introduction, K. Aijmer, A-M. Simon-VandenbergenThe Function of Adverbial Connectors in Second Initial Position in English and Swedish, B. AltenbergThe English Pragmatic Marker surely and its Functional Counterparts in Spanish, A. DowningPolysemy Patterns in Contrast: The Case of Dutch ‘toch’ and German ‘doch’, A. FoolenOn the Universality of Discourse Markers, B. Fraser"Not now" - on Non-Correspondence between the Cognate Adverbs now and na, H. HasselgardHow Well can well be Translated? On the English Discourse Particle well and its Correspondences in Norwegian and German, S. JohanssonContrastive Analysis of Adversative Relational Markers, Using Comparable Corpora, D.M. LewisThe Spanish Discourse Markers. o sea and pues and their English Correspondences, A-B. StenstromAspectual Particles in some European Languages, W. VandewegheDialogistic Positions and Anticipated Audiences a Framework for Stylistic Comparisons, P. R. R. White, M. SanoVraiment and really in Contrast. When Truth and Reality Meet, D. Willems, A. DemolConstructions in Cross-Language Research. Verbs as Pragmatic Particles in Solv, J-O. Ostman

Pre-publication quotes: "The empirical studies presented here by international experts offer important new insights into the field of pragmatic markers across languages." --Jan Svartvik, Lund University "This volume moves the study of pragmatic markers in a new and exciting direction. Making use of both translation and comparable corpora from a wide variety of European languages, the articles in this collection provide richly detailed, contrastive accounts while at the same time serving to expand our understanding of pragmatic markers in a larger cross-linguistic perspective." --Laurel J. Brinton, Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada