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Publication details [#44335]

Melrose, Robin. 2006. Walking and talking: Traces of the body in the grammar and lexis of spontaneous spoken English. Semiotica 162 : 341–369.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

grammar1 | lexicon | origins of human communication | spontaneous discourse

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This article attempts to demonstrate that spontaneous spoken language, and in this case English, can also be regarded as a window on language evolution.