What is it about?

This book is about understanding the meaning of grammar by looking at how it is used for what purpose.

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Why is it important?

It is the first corpus-based study of a construction from the perspective of discourse pragmatics.

Perspectives

The exuberance of the analysis makes this book refreshing.

Prof. Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
University of Oregon

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This page is a summary of: Dramatized Discourse, August 2005, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/sfsl.56.
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