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Publication details [#53792]
Münchow, Patricia von and Florimond Rakotonoelina. 2010. Questions and explanations in French and Anglo-American Usenet newsgroups. Discourse Studies 12 (3) : 311–329.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Journal WWW
Annotation
This cross-cultural analysis demonstrates that questions and explanations in Anglo-American and French Usenet newsgroup messages serve different conversational goals, i.e. a better understanding of the complexity of debated (environmental) issues in the first, and a mere maintenance of ordinary conversation between equals in the second group.