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Publication details [#7203]
Okby, M. 1978. Transitional dependencies in informal discourse varieties. In Loflin, Marvin D. and James Silverberg, eds. Discourse and inference in cognitive anthropology: An approach to psychic unity and enculturation. Mouton. pp. 145–151. 
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Article in book
Publication language
English
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O. argues that transition between sentences in discourse is fundamentally determined by the process of communication (viewed as universal) rather than by (usage-specific and language-specific) verbal contexts of utterance.