The impact of context on discourse marker use in two conversational genres

Discourse Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 759-775

  Verdonik, Darinka ^a   Ågank, Andrej ^a   Pisanski Peterlin, Agnes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Context talk relationships; Conversational genre; Discourse markers; Language use; Pragmatic expression; Sociocognitive context model

Indexed keywords

EID: 57449105547     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445608096572     Document Type: Article

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