Stancetaking in spoken ELF discourse in academic settings: interpersonal functions of I don’t know as a face-maintaining strategy

Our study examines interpersonal functions enacted through a stance marker in spoken ELF academic discourse. We specifically focus on investigating the functions of I don’t know in an academic speech event by embracing an interpersonal pragmatics and sociolinguistics perspective to figure out how it...

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Main Authors: Hatime Çiftçi, Erdem Akbaş
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hacettepe University 2021-04-01
Series:Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics
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Online Access:https://www.ejal.info/index.php/ejal/article/view/423