Oh-Receipt
Definition:
An oh-receipt is a move (such as the utterance of oh in English) that signals a sharp change in the state in the speaker’s knowledge, such as the
- overcoming of a previous expectation, or
- achievement of a new understanding resulting from new information.
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This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.