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Publication details [#22274]

Schiffrin, Deborah. 1986. Functions of AND in discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 10 (1) : 41–66.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

connective | discourse structure

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Annotation

It is argued that the discourse functions of `and' have to be assessed at the larger level of the discourse. Two of the functions revealed in this study is the building of global ideas and the continuation of the speaker's notions.