On the place of linguistic resources in the organization of talk-in-interaction: ‘Second person’ reference in multi-party conversation

Lerner, Gene H.

doi:10.1075/prag.6.3.02ler

Article published In: Interaction-based studies of language
Edited by Cecilia E. Ford and Johannes Wagner
[Pragmatics 6:3] 1996
► pp. 281–294

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On the place of linguistic resources in the organization of talk-in-interaction

‘Second person’ reference in multi-party conversation

Gene H. Lerner

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Published online: 1 September 1996

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