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Publication details [#12103]

Pavlidou, Theodossia. 1998. Greek and German telephone closings: Patterns of confirmation and agreement. Pragmatics 8 (1) : 79–94.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
conversational style | telephone closing | telephone conversation | topic initiation
Language as a subject
German | Greek, Modern
Person as a subject
Button, G.
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
ISBN
1018-2101
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag

Annotation

It is observed that agreement tokens are prevalent in Greek telephone closings, while tag-questions are frequent in German telephone closings.