Discourse Markers as Negotiating Strategies: And people just you know like ‘wow’

Jucker, Andreas H.; Smith, Sara W.

doi:10.1075/pbns.57.10juc

In:Discourse Markers: Descriptions and theory
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Yael Ziv
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 57] 1998
► pp. 171–202

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And people just you know like ‘wow’

Discourse Markers as Negotiating Strategies

Andreas H. Jucker

Sara W. Smith

Published online: 15 July 1998

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.57.10juc

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