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Publication details [#51627]

Lamerichs, Joyce. 2009. 'And then I'm really like . . .': 'preliminary' self-quotations in adolescent talk. Discourse Studies 11 (4) : 409–414.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adolescent | cooperation | discourse strategy | evaluation | self-quotation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper argues that the characteristics of 'preliminary' self-quotations in adolescent talk provide an interesting conversational tool which allows speakers and recipients to collaboratively evaluate potentially controversial statements.