Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10460949 | Language & Communication | 2012 | 20 Pages |
Abstract
⺠Conventionalization in language is a dynamic process. ⺠Participants ask and answer metalinguistic questions to reduce semantic indeterminacies. ⺠Through metalinguistic discourse participants create and confirm language conventions. ⺠Verbal continuities are validated and renewed in concrete episodes of communication. ⺠Semantic indeterminacies are creative, not 'repairables'.
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Authors
Dorthe Duncker,