Publications

Publication details [#1027]

Bald, Wolf-Dietrich. 1979. Some functions of 'yes' and 'no' in conversation. In Greenbaum, Sidney, Geoffrey N. Leech and Jan Svartvik, eds. Studies in English linguistics for Randolph Quirk. Longman. pp. 178–191.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversation | reactive speech act

Language as a subject

English

Annotation

A corpus-based study of the functions that 'yes' and 'no' may have as responses in English conversations, of what they 'mean', and of the correlations with intonational features.