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Publication details [#26415]

Sun, Hao. 2002. Display and reaffirmation of affect bond and relationship. Invited guessing in Chinese telephone conversations. Language in Society 31 (1) : 85–112.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0047-4045

Annotation

This paper analyzes and describes collaborative caller identification through invited guessing in Chinese telephone conversations between female participants, discussing various functions it achieves, such as social and discourse-structural, and characterizing its contextual -e.g. cultural- variables. Patterns observed in the Chinese data are then compared to relevant English data.