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Publication details [#35255]

Biq, Yung-O. 1990. Conversation, continuation, and connectives. Text 10 (3) : 187–208.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

addressee | connective | conversation | interaction | speaker

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0165-4888

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This article explores the functional motivations for the frequent occurrences of discourse connectives -such as na(me)- in Mandarin conversation. It is suggested that they are motivated and constrained by speaker-addressee interactionality.