On some interactive discourse items in English telephone conversation

Authors

POVOLNÁ Renata

Year of publication 2005
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Acta Academica Karviniensia
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Education

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords telephone conversation - spoken interaction - interactive discourse items - discourse function - entire situational context
Description The article compares three telephone and three face-to-face conversations while trying to contribute to the understanding of the role of some interactive discourse items in spoken English. The author concentrates on the clausal forms you know and you see and question tags as linguistic means capable of prompting some reaction from the listener.

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