Whales, Candlelight, and Stuff Like That - General Extenders in English Discourse (Hardcover)

This innovative work provides the first comprehensive account of general extenders ("or something", "and stuff", "or whatever"). Combining insights from linguistics, cognitive psychology, and interactional sociolinguistics, the author demonstrates that these small phrases are not simply vague expressions, but have a powerful role in making interpersonal communication work. The audience for this book includes linguists, scholars of English, teachers of English as a first and a second language, sociolinguists, psycholinguists, and communications researchers.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
Release date:	March 2000
First published:	February 2000
Authors:	Maryann Overstreet (Assistant Professor of European Languages and Literatures)
Dimensions:	242 x 159 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-512574-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Language teaching theory & methods Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General
LSN:	0-19-512574-6
Barcode:	9780195125740

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