Grammar, tails, and affect: Constructing expressive choices in discourse*

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Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 405-429

  Mccarthy, Michael ^a   Carter, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affect; Conversation analysis; Discourse analysis.; Grammar

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039228181     PISSN: 01654888     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/text.1.1997.17.3.405     Document Type: Article

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