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 ...

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 ...

From a corpus of verbal interactions in schools (pupils aged 6 to 11 years), we propose to analyze the issues of different affirmation processes summoned by the teacher in a verbal context of conflict (theoretical frame: ...

Our paper analyses the way English and Spanish speaking informants build textual cohesion in a narrative task involving a non-prototypical information flow. The results are compared with those of Dimroth et al. (2010) in ...

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 ...

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 through ...

In current literature on Italian language, notions of affermazione (affirmation), conferma (confirmation), accordo (agreement) are used to identify the functions of a subclass of discourse particles used in reply utterances, ...

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 ...

This article is about the expression of agreement in a particular type of talk-in-interaction: debates occurring between the two ballots of French presidential elections. The main way of expressing agreement in French being ...