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Publication details [#12120]
Bell, David M. 1998. Cancellative discourse markers: A core/periphery approach. Pragmatics 8 (4) : 515–541. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Person as a subject
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
ISBN
1018-2101
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag
Annotation
The author analyzes English cancellative discourse markers by distinguishing between core and peripheral discourse functions and by applying a notion of cancellation. It is argued that this approach defeats the notions of contrastiveness and polysemy.