Instruction and Interaction in an American Lecture Class. Observations from a Corpus
Taking the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English, this paper explores the pragmatic behavior of one-word tags – a common feature in conversational English – in academic speech. The analysis indicates that university professors use tags within textual metadiscourse patterns to signpost their aud...
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
2012-05-01
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| Series: | The ESPecialist: Research in Language for Specific Purposes |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/esp/article/view/9291 |