The poetics of stance: Text-metricality, epistemicity, interaction

Language in Society

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 569-592

  Lempert, Michael ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Argument; Dialogue; Epistemic stance; Interaction; Poetics; Textuality; Tibetan

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949089043     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: 14698013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404508080779     Document Type: Article

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