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Explanations

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: Explanations: what are they?Explanations occur frequently in every-day life.In spite of this, the concept of explanation is not easy to define.Within a given context, utterances or sequences of utterances can be intuitively recognized as explanations by people participating in or observing the interactional situation.There are explanations via examples (for example,'This is a squirrel.Like the one you saw last week in the park'), explanations via definitions (for example, 'These are patches.

Source: IPrA Papers in Pragmatics

DOI: 10.1075/iprapip.3.1.04bar

Authors: Maria Silvia Barbieri, Federica Colavita, Nora Scheuer

Language: English

Topic: Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W2323606359

FWCI: 2.273

Cites: 8

Cited by: 6

Related to: 10