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A Discourse Analysis of Say versus Tell in Spoken American English
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- Issue Date
- 2001-06
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 언어교육원
- Citation
- 어학연구, Vol.37 No.2, pp. 329-357
- Abstract
- This study explores semantic and functional differences between say and
tell in authentic spoken discourse using contextual analysis (Celce- Murcia,1980). Through frequency distribution and qualitative analysis, the paper demonstrates that the difference between the two is not only in the syntactic
constraint as most reference grammars emphasize, but also in their semantic
and distributional distinctions, which is closely related to the interactive
functions of each verb and the speaker's communicative goals. For ESL/EFL
teaching, this paper will suggest that grammar be presented at the discourse
level, illustrating how the use of a form contributes to the speaker's communicative goals.
- ISSN
- 0254-4474
- Language
- English
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