Abstract
The paper discusses conversants' use of the present progressive tense, deictic expressions, and (non) pronominalization in discourse. The discourses analyzed are technical, explanatory exchanges. It is illustrated that such discourses display underlying structures which explain, and predict, conversants' use of these linguistic forms in the technical exchanges. The findings are compared to those obtained earlier for informal rap sessions between friends.
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