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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tan, Zhi Xuan
Other Authors: Randy John LaPolla
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138307