The discourse marker nu: Israeli Hebrew impatience in interaction

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Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 89-128

  Maschler, Yael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Continuers; Impatience; Interpersonal discourse markers; Key; Nu; Urging tokens

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EID: 33750876084     PISSN: 01654888     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/text.2003.005     Document Type: Article

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