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Publication details [#8107]

Roncador, Manfred Von and Wolfram Bublitz. 1979. Abschweifungen. In Weydt, Harald, ed. Die Partikeln der deutschen Sprache. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 285–298.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

German

Keywords

digression | pragmatic particle

Annotation

Analyses formulas like 'by the way', 'incidentally', 'well', etc. which are used to introduce a digression from a given topic in a conversation. Describes also the linguistic means to signal the end of a digression. Gives an explanation in a Gricean framework.