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Publication details [#61347]

Baldauf-Quilliatre, Heike. 2016. “pf” indicating a change in orientation in French interactions. Journal of Pragmatics 104 : 89–107.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

affect | emotion | mental state | social interaction | sound unit

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study explores one specific function of the French sound object “pf”, always linked to affectivity, namely designating emotional detachment from a former stance or action and indicating a change-of-state (in orientation), like regret, fatalism or solace.