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Publication details [#14009]
Muntigl, Peter and William Turnbull. 1998. Conversational structure and facework in arguing. Journal of Pragmatics 29 (3) : 225–256.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
The analysis of three turns in naturally occurring arguments found that the second and third turns revealed distinct types of acts with varying structural and pragmatic characteristics, as well as sequence regularities. It was proposed that speakers' attempts to do facework is a major determinant of these regularities.