Publications
Publication details [#2132]
Churchill, Lindsey and Susan Gray. 1977. Beyond ethnography: A conversational analysis of auctions. In Fasold, Ralph W. and Roger W. Shuy, eds. Studies in language variation: Semantics, syntax, phonology, pragmatics, social situations, ethnographic approaches. Georgetown University Press. pp. 209–225.
Annotation
On how the auctioneer attempts to keep prices up when buyers may legally make any bids whatsoever.