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Schiffrin, Deborah. 1986. Functions of and in discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 10 (1) : 41–66.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This paper argues that moving the analysis of 'and' to a discourse level enables a more accurate semantic and pragmatic description. It is demonstrated that in everyday discourse, 'and' serves to build idea structures and to continue speaker actions.