Publications

Publication details [#44697]

McKinlay, Andy and Chris McVittie. 2006. Using topic control to avoid the gainsaying of troublesome evaluations. Discourse Studies 8 (6) : 797–815.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

evaluation | multiparty conversation | topic control

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper discusses the use of topic control by the multiparty admissions group of an arts and crafts guild to prevent outright disagreement in assessment, leading to ‘gainsaying’.