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Publication details [#50108]

Beeching, Kate. 2001. Repair strategies and social interaction in spontaneous spoken French: the pragmatic particle enfin. Journal of French Language Studies 11 (2) : 23–40.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

correction | pragmatic particle | repair | social interaction | spontaneous discourse

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

www.journals.cup.org

Annotation

This article examines the role of the French pragmatic particle enfin in spontaneous discourse when employed as a corrective to introduce a repair and as mediator of social relations in its mitigating capacity.