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Publication details [#23778]

Condon, Sherri L. 1986. The discourse functions of O.K. Semiotica 60 (1-2) : 73–101.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse organization | marker of conversational organization | pragmatic particle

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

Shows that O.K. is not just an agreement marker, but that it can also appear at transition points of a discourse, where several levels of organization coincide, to signal that unmarked alternatives have been chosen.