The representation of conflict in the discourse of Italian melodrama

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2087-2104

  Piazza, Roberta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(un)cooperation; Adjacency pairs; Cinematic dialogue; Fallacy in questioning; Move; Presupposition; Repair

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750627108     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2006.03.006     Document Type: Article

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