Publications

Publication details [#38952]

Clachar, Arlene. 2004. Creole discourse effects on the speech conjunctive system in expository texts. Journal of Pragmatics 36 (10) : 1827–1850.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | conjunction1 | creole | written language, processing of

Language as a subject

Creole

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study shows that Creole discourse structures and the ramifications of an oral tradition influence Creole-speakers’ propensity to use conjunctions and clause-linking strategies typical of spoken discourse registers in their academic expository texts.