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 ...

Voilà is a linguistic unit characterized by two groups of paired values and statuses: [signpost value + interjection status] and [predicative value + pivotal status]. From these issues, we formulate a functional hypothesis ...

Our paper analyzes different definitions of affirmation and related concepts such as confirmation, agreement, settlement, etc. The analysis leads us to defend the idea that these concepts have pragmatic nature and that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...