Chapter 18
Metacommunication
Article outline
- 18.1Introduction
- 18.2Metacommunicative utterances and their functions
- 18.2.1Text organisation
- A.Introducing communicative actions
- B.Structuring communicative events
- C.Referring to visual elements and to following or preceding passages
- D.Labelling illocutions
- E.Managing time and situation
- F.Managing linguistic form
- 18.2.2Audience orientation
- G.Managing channel
- H.Checking understanding
- I.Highlighting the relevance of information
- J.Evaluating others’ talk
- K.Anticipating criticism
- 18.3Properties of metacommunicative utterances
- 18.3.1Position within the text
- 18.3.2Personal pronouns
- 18.3.3Metacommunicative utterances that have become set expressions
- 18.3.4Variation in the use of metacommunication
- 18.4Some concluding remarks on metacommunication in Esperanto
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