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Publication details [#13282]

McHoul, Alexander W. 1994. Con/versation. In Parret, Herman, ed. Pretending to Communicate. (Foundations of communication and cognition). Walter de Gruyter. pp. 196–211.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | consensus | conversation | conversational analysis

Language as a subject

English

Annotation

Aknowledging that "conversation "can be read in terms of any combination of consensus-conflict, the author discusses some conversational materials and a fragment from the ethnomethodological literature to show how membership, competence, understanding and/or plausibility can be contested.