The role of interlocutor familiarity in meaning creation in conversations
This paper focuses on the role of interlocutor familiarity as a key factor in influencing the meaning creation process in conversations. Contrary to the classical Structuralist view of language as fixed codes to be decoded, we adopt the emergent view that words do not have inherent meaning. Instead,...
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Main Author: | Tan, Zhi Xuan |
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Other Authors: | Randy John LaPolla |
Format: | Final Year Project |
Language: | English |
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Nanyang Technological University
2020
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138307 |
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