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Publication details [#48569]

Mindt, Ilka. 2008. Appropriateness in discourse: The adjectives surprised and surprising in monologue and dialogue. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (9) : 1503–1520.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

appropriateness | dialogue | discourse analysis | illocution | monologue

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article applies the theoretical concept of appropriateness to data taken from the British National Corpus and discusses the connection between the discourse types of monologue and dialogue and the evaluation of appropriateness.