Grammar in Interaction: Adverbial Clauses in American English Conversations
(Part of the Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics Series)
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Cecilia E. Ford explores the question: what work do adverbial clauses do in conversational interaction? Her analysis of this predominating conjunction strategy in English conversation is based on the assumption that grammars reflect recurrent patterns of situated language use, and that a primary site for language is in spontaneous talk. She considers the interactional as well as the informational work of talk and shows how conversationalists use grammar...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521023750
ISBN13:9780521023757
Release Date:August 2008
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:184 Pages
Weight:0.53 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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