Publications

Publication details [#26424]

Overstreet, Maryann. 1999. Whales, candlelight, and stuff like that. General extenders in English discourse. Oxford University Press. XII+ 171 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | extension | interaction | intersubjectivity | language use

Language as a subject

English, American

Annotation

Drawing on samples of conversational data, O. develops her own analysis of general extenders -such as OR SOMETHING, AND EVERYTHING, AND STUFF- as interactional and more specifically intersubjectivity-markers.

Reviewed by

Ball, Catherine N. 2002. Review of $Whales, candlelight, and stuff like that. General extenders in English discourse.