Chapter 4
The many shades and shapes of transaction
Transactions as an oral genre
Article outline
- 4.1Oral genres in the marketplace
- 4.2Fluidity and variability: The role of information access in transaction
- 4.2.1Speech in transactional activities
- 4.2.2Spatial layouts and information access
- 4.3Emergent sociality
- 4.4Dissolving “focus” at the finish move
- 4.5Discussion and conclusions