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Publication details [#7784]
Quasthoff, Uta M. 1978. The uses of stereotype in everyday argument. Journal of Pragmatics 2 (1) : 1–48.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Journal WWW
Annotation
Different argumentative roles of stereotypes as expressions of common knowledge are discussed. In German, the particles 'ja', 'eben' and 'doch' serve as markers for the common knowledge as a prerequisite for implicatures from the semantic to the interactional level of interpretation. The conclusions are based on the analysis of four actual German conversations.