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Publication details [#20417]
Houtkoop-Steenstra, Hanneke. 1987. Establishing agreement: An analysis of proposal-acceptance sequences. Foris. 204 pp. 
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
A conversational analysis of the structure of proposal-acceptance sequences in Dutch telephone conversations. `Proposal' covers things like requests, invitations, offers, etc., i.e. actions in which the speaker solicits his recipients to agree to carry out the activity under consideration.