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Publication details [#46522]
Auer, Peter. 2007. Why are increments such elusive objects? An afterthought. Pragmatics 17 (4) : 647–658. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag
Annotation
This paper argues that Schegloff's 'increments' or unit expansions are to strictly focused on English. This paper proposes a full typology approach to unit expansion, accounting for prosody, semantics and action structure and pragmatics at large.