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Publication details [#32903]

Strodt-Lopez, Barbara. 1991. Tying it all in: Asides in university lectures. Applied Linguistics 12 (2) : 117–140.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

interpretation | pragmatics | semantics1 | topicality | university

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This study demonstrates how professors at a major American university employ local breaks in topicality, asides, to enhance global semantic coherence and pragmatic consistency, and to evoke in students a range of interpretive frames.