Publications

Publication details [#53042]

House, Juliane and Nicole Baumgarten. 2010. I think and I don’t know in English as lingua franca and native English discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (5) : 1184–1200.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

collocation | conversational analysis | function | lingua franca | native speaker

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This comparative study argues that the collocations 'I think' and 'I don’t know' are among the most frequent stance-marking devices in both native English and English lingua franca conversations, demonstrating nearly complementary distributions, but only partly overlaying functional profiles.