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Publication details [#26748]

Jefferson, Gail. 1993. Caveat speaker: Preliminary notes on recipient topic-shift implicature. Research on Language and Social Interaction 26 (1) : 1–30.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

implicature | topic | turn-taking

Language as a subject

English, American | English, British

Place, Publisher

Lawrence Erlbaum

ISBN

0835-1813

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper examines various objects that allow a recipient to exhibit attention to coparticipant speech whilst shifting to his own matters: acknowledgement tokens that precede topic-shift, assessment and commentaries and recipient inquiries.