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- Title
Meta-Communicative Expressions and Situational Variation of Stance Marking: I say and I tell (you) in Early Modern English Dialogues.
- Authors
Landert, Daniela
- Abstract
In this study, I compare the functions of I say and I tell (you) in the different text types in A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560-1760 (CED). The text types differ with respect to a number of parameters, such as the authenticity of the dialogue, the stability of the participant roles, the formality of the setting, and the dominant verbal activities. I show that the two expressions are used with a range of different functions, most of which express the speaker's stance, and I argue that the differences in function are related to differences in the communicative setting and the roles of the participants.
- Subjects
COMMUNICATIVE competence; EARLY modern English language; DIALOGUE; ORATORS; SPEECH acts (Linguistics)
- Publication
Nordic Journal of English Studies, 2017, Vol 16, Issue 1, p120
- ISSN
1654-6970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.35360/njes.396