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Publication details [#48505]

Antaki, Charles, Mark Rapley and Alec McHoul. 2008. You gotta light?: On the luxury of context for understanding talk in interaction. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (1) : 42–54.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | pragmatics | speech act | talk-in-interaction

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper in the analysis of talk vis-à-vis context questions explores some current debates about the validity of ‘contextual’ details for the comprehension of talk-in-interaction, arguing that, if context is hearable in talk as such, analysts can’t ignore it.