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Publication details [#49097]

Maschler, Yael and Roi Estlein. 2008. Stance-taking in Hebrew casual conversation via be'emet ('really, actually, indeed', lit. 'in truth'). Discourse Studies 10 (3) : 283–316.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adverbial | discourse marker | function | ordinary language

Language as a subject

Hebrew

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper explores the functional itinerary (adverb, discourse marker …) of Hebrew be'emet ('really, actually, indeed', lit. 'in truth'), via a close analysis of its synchronic usage in contemporary ordinary spoken Hebrew.