Grammar in interaction adverbial clauses in American English conversations

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 sit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ford, Cecilia E. (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge NY, [etc.] : Cambridge University Press 2005.
Colección:Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 9
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction; 2. Overview of the conversational corpus; 3. Initial adverbial clauses; 4. Final versus initial adverbial clauses in continuous intonation; 5. Final adverbial clauses after ending intonation; 6. Comparison of clause types and apparent deviations from the general patterns; 7. Conclusion.