Offers of assistance: Constraints on syntactic design

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1257-1280

  Curl, Traci S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conversation analysis; Offers; Sequentially relevant environments; Syntactic formats; Telephone calls

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745199882     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2005.09.004     Document Type: Article

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