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Publication details [#9278]

Svartvik, Jan. 1979. 'Well' in conversation. In Greenbaum, Sidney, Geoffrey N. Leech and Jan Svartvik, eds. Studies in English linguistics for Randolph Quirk. Longman. pp. 167–177.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

pragmatic particle | spoken language

Language as a subject

Annotation

Study of 'well' in its function of sharing device, based on texts from a corpus of spoken English.