Publications
Publication details [#51353]
Pichler, Heike. 2009. The functional and social reality of discourse variants in a northern English dialect: I DON'T KNOW and I DON'T THINK compared. Intercultural Pragmatics 6 (4) : 561–596. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This contribution to language variation and change in discourse, examines the functional and social meanings of the formal localized and non-localized discourse variants of the expressions "I don't know" and "I don't think" in British English.