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Publication details [#12450]

Wolfson, Nessa. 1997. Speech Events and Natural Speech. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 116–125.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

interview | naturalness | sociolinguistics | spontaneous discourse

Reprint of

Wolfson, Nessa. 1997. Speech Events and Natural Speech. In : 116–125.

Annotation

The author argues that interviews used to elicit natural speech are not a recognized speech event, and as such they cannot generate natural speech.

Reprints

Wolfson, Nessa. 1997. Speech Events and Natural Speech. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 116–125.