An intra-varietal comparison of institutionalised spoken interaction: 2. Would as a hedging device in an Irish context

Farr, Fiona; O'Keeffe, Anne

doi:10.1075/scl.9.04far

In:Using Corpora to Explore Linguistic Variation
Edited by Randi Reppen, Susan Fitzmaurice and Douglas Biber
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 9] 2002
► pp. 25–48

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2. Would as a hedging device in an Irish context

An intra-varietal comparison of institutionalised spoken interaction

Fiona Farr | University of Limerick, Ireland

Anne O'Keeffe | University of Limerick, Ireland

Published online: 29 November 2002

https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.9.04far

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