Publications

Publication details [#39527]

Beeching, Kate. 2004. Pragmatic particles - polite but powerless? Tone-group terminal hein and quoi in contemporary spoken French. Multilingua 23 (1-2) : 61–84.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

politeness | power | pragmatic particle | social interaction

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This paper tries to show the kinship between pragmatic particles and other socially stratified phonological features, whilst pointing to their -paradoxically polite- contribution to sociability in face-to-face interaction.