In this paper we shall be concentrating on Italian affirmation operator appunto. Our goal is to offer a description of the metalinguistic operation that it carries out. The study examines examples taken from two different ...

In this article, we will discuss the affirmation of a teenage student with intellectual disability when interacting with his teacher. This affirmation co-occurs when a variety of speech acts are performed and interpreted ...

When used in affirmative sentences the English auxiliary do is often characterized as expressing more or less polemical values. Yet do often occurs in affirmative utterances where no (potential) disagreement between ...

This article treats the interpretative problems that students of Spanish as a foreign language use to have with some affirmative and disconformity structures into the field of negation. We will try to analyze the formal ...

En même temps, justement and à propos, when observed in french oral speech, give us clues to understand the way the discourse is gradually built during interactions. Thanks to these markers, the speaker leads his way ...

Multimodality is the natural condition of human communication, thanks to which the human beings build social meaningful messages. The use of a unique channel and code seems to be an exception rather than the norm in human ...

This contribution investigates the German response particle genau and the French response particle voilà within collaborative turn sequences in videotaped ordinary conversations. Adopting a conversation analytic approach ...

The essay describes a direct experience of research-action in the context of Milano Porta Venezia, a local space of the global Ethiopian and Eritrean diaspora. I propose a reflection on the potentialities and the limits ...

This article describes some affirmative markers of the Medieval French from a syntactic, semantic and pragmatic point of view. The choice of the affirmative marker is influenced by the preceding type of utterance. An ...