Comment clauses in English face-to-face conversation

Authors

POVOLNÁ Renata

Year of publication 2003
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Theory and Practice in English Studies, Volume 1, Proceedings from the Seventh Conference of British, American and Canadian Studies (Linguistics and Methodology), edited by Jan Chovanec
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Education

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords comment clauses (CCs); speaker-oriented CCs; listener-oriented CCs; syntactic type; discourse function; appealer; inform marker; empathizer; opine marker; marker of certainty; marker of emotional attitude; turn position; tone unit;
Description The paper concentrates on comment clauses (CCs) as used in English face-to-face conversation. The author shows that there are many forms such as you know, you see and I mean that are frequently used in everyday conversation between people. Although they do not contribute much to the informational content of a particular conversation, their presence is important because they perform several different discourse functions and help the smooth flow of communication.

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