Pragmatics of conversation and communication in noisy settings

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2159-2184

  McKellin, William H ^a   Shahin, Kimary ^a   Hodgson, Murray ^a   Jamieson, Janet ^a   Pichora Fuller, Kathleen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discourse strategies; Noise classroom; Relevance; Usage based theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448997322     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2006.11.012     Document Type: Article

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