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ISBN: | 9789027295057 9027295050 9789027253729 1588115631 9027253722 1282160184 9781282160187 9786612160189 6612160187
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-244) and indexes. English. Print version record.
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Summary: | This book examines the resources that speakers employ when building conversations. These resources contribute to overall coherence and cohesion, which speakers create and maintain interactively as they build on each other's contributions. The study is cross-linguistic, drawing on parallel corpora of task-oriented dialogues between dyads of native speakers of English and Spanish. The framework of the investigation is the analysis of speech genres and their staging; the analysis shows that each stage in the dialogues exhibits different thematic, rhetorical, and cohesive relations. The main contr.
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Other form: | Print version: Taboada, María Teresa. Building coherence and cohesion. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2004
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