Coming to terms with conversational grammar: 'Dislocation and 'dysfluency'

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 385-409

  Rühlemann, Christoph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

BNC; CANCODE; Conversational grammar; Dislocation; Dysfluency; LGSWE; Semantic prosody; Situational factors; Speech management; Spoken grammar

Indexed keywords

EID: 39449098508     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.11.4.03ruh     Document Type: Article

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