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Josep Maria Cots

Sintagma Revista De Linguistica, 1993

Introducció This article is the result of the observation and analysis of a series of conversations between instructors and students at a Catalan university during office hours. The purpose of the research was to discover the extent to which what people say and how they say it can be explained in tems of the context in which communication is taking place. The main reasons for choosing this specific type of interactions were, in the first place, my familiarity with that specific social environment. This kind of research allows us to constantly assess the linguistic data with features of context which are not always explicit. In the second place, as Fairclough (1985, 1989) says, by concentrating on the everyday life of social institutions, where

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