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Publication details [#28108]

Farghal, Mohammed. 1995. The pragmaticsof ´insallah in Jordanian Arabic. Multilingua 14 (3) : 153–270.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | expression1 | face-to-face interaction | marker of conversational organization | pragmatics

Language as a subject

Arabic, Jordanian

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0167-8507

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This paper examines the pragmatics of the Jordanian Arabic expression INSALLAH, which drifted widely from its semantic import as it came to account for various pragmatic uses in face-to-face interaction as a general discourse marker.