%0 Journal Article
%T SYNONYMS IN ACTION: A CASE STUDY
%A Rebecca Clift
%J International Journal of English Studies (IJES)
%D 2003
%I Universidad de Murcia
%R 10.6018/ijes.3.1.48631
%X This paper discusses what the methods of conversation analysis (CA) might have to offer the study of linguistic synonymy. It takes as a case study two items commonly held to be synonyms -'actually' and 'in fact'- and shows considerable differences between the two in their interactional implementation: they are implicated in the prosecution of differing courses of action. Such cases argue that it is analytically more profitable to consider what a lexical item does in the context of talk than what it means.
%K synonymy
%K conversation analysis (CA)
%K actually
%K in fact
%U http://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/48631