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Publication details [#42596]

Overstreet, Maryann. 2005. And stuff und so: Investigating pragmatic expressions in English and German. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (11) : 1845–1864.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | extension | familiarity | pragmatic language

Language as a subject

English | German

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper presents a cross-linguistic comparison of a specific group of pragmatic expressions called ‘general extenders’ (e.g., and stuff, und so; or something, oder so), in recorded English and German interaction among familiars.