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Publication details [#14029]
He, Agnes Weiyun and Snezha Tsoneva. 1998. The symbiosis of choices and control: Toward a discourse-based account of can. Journal of Pragmatics 29 (5) : 615–637. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
An examination of the situational and conversation-structural forces motivating the use of the modal verb CAN. A three-way interpretative framework is presented, consisting of the grammatical co-text of CAN, the sequential organization of talk, and the ethnographic background.