Inshallah: Religious invocations in Arabic topic transition.

The phrase inshallah 'God willing' is well known, even to non-Arabic speakers, as a mitigator of any statement regarding the future, or hopes for the future. Here we use the methods of conversation analysis (CA) to examine a less salient but nonetheless pervasive and compelling interactional usage:...

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Publicado en:Language in Society Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 357 - 383
Autores principales: Clift, Rebecca, Helani, Fadi
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Cambridge University Press Jun2010
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