Publications

Publication details [#25523]

DeCapua, Andrea and Joan Findlay Dunham. 1993. Strategies in the discoure of advice. Journal of Pragmatics 20 (6) : 519–531.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

advising | discourse analysis | discourse strategy | radio talk

Language as a subject

English, American

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper explores discourse strategies in American (NY) radio advice programs, and identifies three strategies, viz. explanation, elaboration and narration, which aim to clarify problems, (help) explore options and offer direction regarding future action.