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Publication details [#38997]

Schiffrin, Deborah. 1986. Functions of and in discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 10 (1) : 41–66.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | discourse | meaning | pragmatic function | semantics1

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

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.