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Publication details [#32818]

McCarthy, Michael. 2003. Talking Back: "Small" Interactional Response Tokens in Everyday Conversation. Research on Language and Social Interaction 36 (1) : 33–63.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

everyday conversation | listener | response | small talk

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0835-1813

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article explores the functions of a set of high-frequency, 'small-talk' interactional listener response tokens, superfluous to transactional exigencies, in everyday conversation.