Implementing incipient actions: The discourse marker 'so' in English conversation

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 974-998

  Bolden, Galina B ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversation analysis; Discourse markers

Indexed keywords

EID: 62149130464     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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