SOME SPECIFIC FEATURES OF ORAL COMMUNICATION
SOME SPECIFIC FEATURES OF ORAL COMMUNICATION

Summary/Abstract: The interlocutors’ co-presence in oral communication provides them with the opportunity to have access to peer referents and to make linguistic or nonlinguistic choices in order to make themselves better understood. Due to the fact that oral discourse is not planned in advance, having a spontaneous progress, the speakers are allowed to use self-corrections, reformulations and repetitions in order to make their message more effective. Drawing on a corpus of (recorded and transcribed) negotiations, the paper aims to exemplify these specific traits of oral communication.

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