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Publication details [#25877]

Wee, Lionel. 2002. Lor in colloquial Singapore English. Journal of Pragmatics 34 (6) : 711–725.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

marker of conversational organization | particle

Language as a subject

English, Singapore

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

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Annotation

Adopting a grammaticalization-based approach, this paper reexamines the use of the particle LOR in colloquial Singapore Englis. The newly attributed 'resignation' sense of LOR is shown to relate to its use as marker of 'obviousness'.