Publications

Publication details [#51090]

Drew, Paul and Traci Walker. 2009. Going too far: Complaining, escalating and disaffiliation. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (12) : 2400–2414.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

complaining | conversation | disagreeing | multiparty conversation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper, derived from research on (dis)affiliation in interaction, discusses ‘anomalous’ conversational complaint sequences, in which the escalating complaint by co-participant B in defense of A, goes too far for the putative A complainant.