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Epistemic stance in English conversation : a description of its interactional functions, with a focus on I think /
This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather than semantic notion: showing commitment to the status of information is an emergent interactive activity, rooted in the interaction between co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2003.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser., 115. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather than semantic notion: showing commitment to the status of information is an emergent interactive activity, rooted in the interaction between conversational co-participants. The first major part of the book establishes the highly regular and routinized nature of such stance marking in the data. The second part offers a micro-analysis of I think, the prototypical stance marker, in its sequential and activity contexts. Adopting the methodolog. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 207 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027295941 9027295948 1588114449 9781588114440 1282160745 9781282160743 |
| ISSN: | 0922-842X ; |