Comical hypothetical: Arguing for a conversational phenomenon

Discourse Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 383-405

  Winchatz, Michaela R ^a   Kozin, Alexander ^b  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Communication; Conversation analysis; Discourse analysis; Ethnography of communication; Hymes; Imagery

Indexed keywords

EID: 43949086555     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445608089917     Document Type: Article

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