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Publication details [#35140]

Bilmes, Jack. 1992. Dividing the rice: A microanalysis of the mediator's role in a Northern Thai negotiation. Language in Society 21 (4) : 569–602.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | conversational analysis | mediation | negotiation | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Thai

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper tries to show that a close conversation analysis of speech can be used as a tool of ethnography and provide insight, in casu, into the problem of mediation. At issue is the mediation between a ricefield owner and a sharecropper in an Northern Thai village.