The Pragmatic Functions of ‘I Don't Think’ and ‘I Think + Not’

This study provides an account of the pragmatic functions of the stance markers ‘I don't think’ and ‘I think + not’, based on naturally-occurring L1 (American English speakers) and L2 (Chinese and Persian English speakers) classroom corpora. Of the four pragmatic functions, emphatic, evaluative...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sabet, P., Zhang, Grace
Format: Journal Article
Published: Routledge 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69780