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Publication details [#48560]

Starks, Donna, Jane Christie and Laura Thompson. 2008. Whose discourse particles? New Zealand eh in the Niuean migrant community. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (7) : 1279–1295.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
discourse | language variety | migration | particle
Language as a subject
English, New Zealand | Niuean
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines the distribution and function of the discourse particle 'eh' in the speech of the Niuean migrant community in New Zealand.