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Publication details [#20431]
Jacobs, Scott, Sally Jackson, Susan Stearns and Barbara Hall. 1991. Digressions in argumentative discourse: Multiple goals, standing concerns, and implicatures. In Chia, Emmanuel N. Indirect quote as the dominant style of reporting in Kan. In : 149–161. : 43–61.
Annotation
The authors study excerpts from divorce mediation encounters, in which the conversation digresses from an ongoing topic into issues serving to demonstrate each spouse's good moral character, and the other's blameworthiness. They explain these digressions in terms of the management of competing conversational goals.