Introduction published in:

The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction
Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González and J. Lachlan Mackenzie
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 296] 2018
► pp. 1–10

Introduction

How is discourse constructed and evaluation achieved in verbal interaction?

María de los Ángeles Gómez González | University of Santiago de Compostela

J. Lachlan Mackenzie | VU Amsterdam

Published online: 20 September 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.296.01gom

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