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Roberts, Felicia; Margutti, Piera; Takano, Shoji – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
The fact that people with minimal linguistic skill can manage in unfamiliar or reduced linguistic environments suggests that there are universal mechanisms of meaning construction that operate at a level well beyond the particular structure or semantics of any one language. The authors examine this possibility in the domain of discourse by…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech Acts, North American English, Italian