The functional and social reality of discourse variants in a northern English dialect: I DON'T KNOW and I DON'T THINK compared
(2009)
Journal Article
Pichler, H. (2009). The functional and social reality of discourse variants in a northern English dialect: I DON'T KNOW and I DON'T THINK compared. Intercultural Pragmatics, 6(4), 561-596. https://doi.org/10.1515/IPRG.2009.028
This paper explores the functional and social meanings of the formal variants of the expressions I DON‟T KNOW and I DON‟T THINK. The qualitative analysis of the data shows that I DON‟T KNOW and I DON‟T THINK are highly routinized discourse formulae t... Read More about The functional and social reality of discourse variants in a northern English dialect: I DON'T KNOW and I DON'T THINK compared.