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Publication details [#28378]

Mathis, Terrie and George Yule. 1994. Zero quotatives. Discourse Processes 18 (1) : 63–76.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

everyday conversation | quotative | speech | women's language

Language as a subject

English, American

Place, Publisher

Ablex Publishing Company

ISBN

0163-853X

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper explores the use of zero quotatives in casual everyday interaction of American women. In what appears to be the paradigm case in the data under investigation, zero quotative use serves to stress participants' linguistic and psychological convergence.