Jessie Sams

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jessie Sams is involved.

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Sams, Jessie 2009 Genre-controlled constructions in written language quotatives: A case study of English quotatives from two major genres Formulaic Language: Volume 1. Distribution and historical change, Corrigan, Roberta, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 147–170 | Chapter
Quotatives in written language serve a variety of functions, depending on genre. Newspaper quotatives often introduce new participants by providing appropriate background information and tend to be more formulaic; fiction quotatives can describe narrativeadvancing events or develop characters and… read more
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