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Publication details [#13956]

Cheng, Winnie and Martin Warren. 2002. The functions of actually in a corpus of intercultural conversations. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 6 (2) : 87–110.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

intercultural communication | native vs. non-native interaction

Language as a subject

English

ISBN

1384-6655

Journal DOI

10.1075/ijcl

Annotation

The authors examine and try to explain differences in the use of 'actually' in conversations between native and non-native speakers of English in Hong Kong. The latter e.g. use 'actually' far more frequently.