Sara W. Smith | John Benjamins

Smith, Sara W. and Andreas H. Jucker 2014 “Maybe, but probably not”: Negotiating likelihood and perspective Language and Dialogue 4:2, pp. 284–298 | Article

The goal of our paper is to explore one of the functions of everyday expressions of likelihood; more specifically, to propose that they play an important role in negotiating not only likelihood but also perspective. We will examine examples of such expressions in the context of conversational… read more

Smith, Sara W. and Xiaoping Liang 2007 Metapragmatic expressions in physics lectures: Integrating representations, guiding processing, and assigning participant roles Metapragmatics in Use, Bublitz, Wolfram and Axel Hübler (eds.), pp. 167–197 | Article

Smith, Sara W. and Andreas H. Jucker 2002 Discourse markers as turns: Evidence for the role of intersubjectivity

in interactional sequences

Rethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction, Fetzer, Anita and Christiane Meierkord (eds.), pp. 151–178 | Article

Smith, Sara W. and Andreas H. Jucker 2000 Actually and other markers of an apparent discrepancy between propositional attitudes of conversational partners Pragmatic Markers and Propositional Attitude, Andersen, Gisle and Thorstein Fretheim (eds.), pp. 207–238 | Article

Jucker, Andreas H. and Sara W. Smith 1998 And people just you know like ‘wow’: Discourse Markers as Negotiating Strategies Discourse Markers: Descriptions and theory, Jucker, Andreas H. and Yael Ziv (eds.), pp. 171–202 | Article

Smith, Sara W. and Andreas H. Jucker 1998 Interactive aspects of reference assignment in conversations The Concept of Reference in the Cognitive Sciences, Kronfeld, Amichai and Lawrence D. Roberts (eds.), pp. 153–187 | Article

We propose a model of reference that contrasts with standard linguistic approaches in that it focuses on the role of interaction in reference, arguing that referring expressions in conversations are not designed for interchangeable audiences but rather exploit the common ground between partners.… read more

Jucker, Andreas H. and Sara W. Smith 1996 Explicit and implicit ways of enhancing common ground in conversations Pragmatics 6:1, pp. 1–18 | Article

Smith, Sara W., Nadia Scholnick, Alta Crutcher, Mary Simeone and William Ray Smith 1991 Foreigner talk revisited: Limits on accommodation to nonfluent speakers The Pragmatics of International and Intercultural Communication: Selected papers from the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 1987, Blommaert, Jan † and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 173–186 | Article