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Publication details [#14848]

Drew, Paul and Elizabeth Holt. 1998. Figures of speech: Figurative expressions and the management of topic transition in conversation. Language in Society 27 (4) : 495–522.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

figurative meaning | idiom | topic change

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study reports on the distribution of figurative expressions in topic transition sequences. Furthermore, when figurative expressions do not accomplish topical closure, conflict between the participants may arise.