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Publication details [#31999]
Enfield, N.J. 2003. The definition of -d'you-call-it: semantics and pragmatics of recognitional deixis. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (1) : 101–117. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This article deals with conventionalized expressions such as '-d'you-call-it', with meanings explicitly oriented towards the interactional nature of the speech context, capable of explaining functional contrast among similar expressions, in a single language and cross-linguistically. It compares the English expressions '-d'you-call-it' and 'you-know-', along with an expression in Lao which roughly means 'that thing'.