‘Well’ in Dialogue Games
A discourse analysis of the interjection ‘well’ in idealized conversation
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This dialogue game approach to the discourse analysis of the English interjection well aims at the formulation of rules which would be informative (marking some contexts of use as more natural than others), systematic (applicable in a mechanical or at least in a non-ad hoc way), and adequate (showing putative competitors to be either false to fact, too narrow or too wide, or demonstrably equivalent).
[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:5] 1984. ix, 104 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | p. ix
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1. Introduction | p. 1
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1.1. Aims
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1.2. Idealizations
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1.3. Chapter outlines
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2. Theory | p. 5
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2.1. Dialogue games
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2.2. Conversational analysis
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2.3. Computational models of dialogue
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3. Earlier Treatments of Well | p. 17
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3.1. Lakoff (1973a)
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3.2. Murray (1979)
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3.3. Svartvik (1980)
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3.4. Owen (1981)
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4. The Present Treatment | p. 27
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4.1. The hypothesis
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4.2. Development of the hypothesis
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4.3. Data and classification
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5. Well as a Qualifier | p. 35
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5.1. Question-answer exchanges
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5.2. Other exchanges
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6. Well as a Frame | p. 53
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6.1. Opening a dialogue
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6.2. Transition situations
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6.3. Closing
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6.4. Turn internal cases
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7. Contrastive Studies | p. 67
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7.1. Well vs. oh
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7.2. Well and Finnish no
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7.3. Schourup (1983)
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8. Extensions | p. 91
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8.1. Politeness
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8.2. Emotions
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8.3. Well in writing
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Footnotes | p. 95
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Sources of Examples | p. 99
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