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Publication details [#24881]

Craig, Robert T. and Karen Tracy, eds. 1983. Conversational coherence: Form, structure, and strategy. SAGE Publications. vii + 344 pp.

Publication type

Book – edited volume

Publication language

English

Keywords

coherence | conversational analysis | ethnomethodology | implicature | speech act

Annotation

The articles in this collective volume try to define conversational coherence and the conceptual frameworks that enable its explanation by using the approaches of conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, Searle's speech act theory and Grice's theory of implicature.

Reviewed by

Carbaugh, Donal. 1989. Review of R.T.Craig, K.Tracy (eds.) (1983: `Conversational coherence: Form, structure, and strategy').