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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

Keywords

conversational analysis | telephone conversation | universal utterance

Place, Publisher

Boreal Scholarly Publishers and Distributors Ltd

ISBN

0835-1813

Journal WWW

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

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.