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Publication details [#56286]

Fox Tree, Jean E. and Natalia Blackwell. 2012. Social factors affect quotative choice. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (10) : 1150–1162.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colloquialism | quotative | social relationship | sociolinguistics | spontaneous discourse

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper discusses how the devices used to present quotations in spontaneous colloquial English conversations, reflect both the relationship between the speaker and what is being reported, and the speaker-addressee relationship.