Who knows best? Evidentiality and epistemic asymmetry in conversation

Pragmatics and Society

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 294-320

  Sidnell, Jack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assessments; Conversation analysis; Epistemic asymmetry; Evidentiality; Interaction; Questions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883377356     PISSN: 18789714     EISSN: 18789722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ps.3.2.08sid     Document Type: Review

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