Supportive Fellow-Speakers and Cooperative Conversations
Discourse topics and topical actions, participant roles and 'recipientaction' in a particular type of everyday conversation
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This is a study of a specific type of everyday conversation whose essential hallmark is its participants' attempt to gain agreement and consent when establishing and maintaining a continuous and coherent flow of talk. Basing his analyses on the Survey'-corpus and resorting to an interpretative, reconstructive mode of description, Bublitz focusses on two main phenomena: (a) discourse topic and topical actions (like INTRODUCING and CHANGING A TOPIC or DIGRESSING from it), (b) hearer signals and reactive speaker contributions. The interlocutors' topic-centered and topic-organizing behaviour is shown to be predominantly and systematically oriented towards supporting their fellow-speakers to the extent that it seems to be justified to regard large parts of these conversations as having a monological character'.
[Not in series, 32] 1988. xii, 308 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | p. ix
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Notational Conventions | p. xi
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1. Introduction | p. 1
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2. Handling the discourse topic | p. 15
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3. Recipient action: the role of the hearer and the secondary speaker | p. 141
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4. Striving for mutual agreement: a particularity of the type of everyday conversation analysed | p. 261
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Notes | p. 269
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Name Index | p. 301
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Subject Index | p. 305
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LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General