On the design and use of pivots in everyday English conversation

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2217-2243

  Walker, Gareth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conversation; Grammar; Phonetics; Syntax; Turn continuation

Indexed keywords

EID: 35449006282     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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