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Publication details [#35884]

Hopper, Robert, Nada Doany, Michael Johnson and Kent Drummond. 1990. Universals and particulars in telephone openings. Research on Language and Social Interaction 24 : 369–387.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Boreal Scholarly Publishers and Distributors Ltd
ISBN
0835-1813

Annotation

This paper examines whether there exists a relatively universal format for telephone openings, comparing any telephone opening to the pattern Schlegoff (1986) described as canonical for North American English.