'Oh', irony and sequential ambiguity in arguments

Discourse and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 123-141

  Hutchby, Ian ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Oh'; Argument; Argumentation; Conversation analysis; Discursive devices; Sequential contexts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035584513     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926501012002001     Document Type: Article

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