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Publication details [#39054]

Schegloff, Emanuel A. 1988. Presequences and indirection : Applying speech act theory to ordinary conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 12 (1) : 55–62.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ordinary language | speech act theory

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper argues that when applying speech act theory for utterances of the form "Do you know + [embedded WH-question]" to ordinary conversations, there is a disattention to the temporal and sequential properties of talk-in-interaction.