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Publication details [#56316]

Taverniers, Myriam and Katrien L.B. Deroey. 2012. ‘Ignore that 'cause it's totally irrelevant’: Marking lesser relevance in lectures. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (14) : 2085–2099.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | language for special purposes | lecture | marker of conversational organization | relevance

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article examines the lexicogrammatical marking of less suitable or less important items in British Academic lecture discourse, distinguishing five basic types of markers.