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Publication details [#1909]

Button, Graham and Neil Casey. 1984. Generating topic: The use of topic initial elicitors. In Atkinson, J. Maxwell and John C. Heritage, eds. Structures of social action: Studies in conversation analysis. Cambridge University Press. pp. 167–190.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse topic | speech act sequence

Annotation

B. and C. report on one sequence type which may be used in 'sensitive' sequential environments to produce a topic that is segmented from other topics.