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Publication details [#14204]

Korolija, Natascha. 2000. Coherence-inducing strategies in conversations amongst the aged. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (4) : 425–462.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

coherence | institutional context | multiparty conversation | old age

Language as a subject

Swedish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article examines coherence patterns in multiparty, institutionalized conversations amongst the aged (80+). The findings reveal that repetitive discourse strategies like recurrent use of topicality and routinized responses are most frequently employed to construct coherence.