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Publication details [#49103]

Thompson, Sandra A. and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen. 2008. On assessing situations and events in conversation: 'extraposition' and its relatives. Discourse Studies 10 (4) : 443–467.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

assessment | conversation | extraposition | situation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines three pervasive conversational patterns used by English speakers to assess a conversational event or situation, and the interactional contingencies that engeder these patterns.