Publication details
I-oriented comment clauses as response elicitors in spoken English
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| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Discourse and Interaction 1, Brno Seminar on Linguistic Studies in English: Proceedings, Spisy Pedagogické fakulty, Vol. 187, edited by Renata Povolná and Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová |
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| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | spoken interaction - I-oriented comment clauses - response elicitors - proper turns - backchannels - different genres of spoken English - fillers - interactive discourse items |
| Description | The study indicates that the differences in the use and frequency of I-oriented comment clauses, considered interactive discourse items in the contribution, must be accounted for by the different speech situations that are typical of the three genres of spoken English analysed and compared. |