Publications

Publication details [#26986]

Cheng, Maria. 2002. The Standoff - what is unsaid? A pragmatic analysis of the conditional marker 'if'. Discourse & Society 13 (3) : 309–317.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conditional mood | if-clause | implicature | marker of conversational organization | news reporting

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper proposes to examine intentions and ideologies underlying U.S. and Chinese news reporting of the spy-plane event (2001) via the implicature linked to the conditional marker 'if'.