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Publication details [#9496]

Tottie, Gunnel and Carita Paradis. 1982. From function to structure: Some pragmatic determinants of syntactic frequencies in impromptu speech. Publications of the Research Institute of the Åbo Akademi Foundation 78 : 307–317.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
casual speech | negation | oral vs. written

Annotation

On why negation is more than twice as frequent in conversation as in written language.