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Publication details [#64424]

García-Ramón, Amparo. 2018. Indexing epistemic incongruence: uy as a formal sign of disagreement in agreement sequences in Spanish. Journal of Pragmatics 131 : 1–17.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

absurdity | agreement | interjection | particle | sequential organization

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

The Spanish interjection uy holds an essential change-of-state meaning and is characteristically employed to accentuate disagreement. Within agreement sequences, uy can be employed to index epistemic absurdity. In agreements, uy characteristically foregoes upgraded versions of prior contributions.