Response tokens in British and Irish discourse: Corpus, context and variational pragmatics

O'Keeffe, Anne; Adolphs, Svenja

doi:10.1075/pbns.178.05ok

In:Variational Pragmatics: A focus on regional varieties in pluricentric languages
Edited by Klaus P. Schneider and Anne Barron
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 178] 2008
► pp. 69–98

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Response tokens in British and Irish discourse: Corpus, context and variational pragmatics

Anne O'Keeffe

Svenja Adolphs

Published online: 13 May 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.178.05ok

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