Publications

Publication details [#39542]

Ford, Cecilia E. 2004. Contingency and Units in Interaction. Discourse Studies 6 (1) : 27–52.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

talk-in-interaction | unit of linguistic expression

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper argues that attention to participants’ regular methods for managing and exploiting contingencies can be inserted from the outset in our language descriptions and in the nature of unit building in interaction.