Prosodic cues of identity construction: Intensity in Greek young women's conversational narratives

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 627-647

  Archakis, Argiris ^a   Papazachariou, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Construction of identities; Contextualization cues; Conversational narratives; Direct speech; Intensity

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249099994     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2008.00385.x     Document Type: Article

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