Using large corpora of conversation to investigate narrative: The case of interjections in conversational storytelling performance

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 438-464

  Norrick, Neal R ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conversation; Corpus; Interjections; Narrative

Indexed keywords

EID: 65849231260     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.13.4.03nor     Document Type: Article

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