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Publication details [#53081]

Taboada, Maite and Loreley Wiesemann. 2010. Subjects and topics in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (7) : 1816–1828.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | corpus analysis | subject | topic

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Drawing on a corpus analysis of English and Spanish casual conversations, this article proposes an exploration of the expression of conversational subject and topic, employing parameters determined by Centering Theory.