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Publication details [#51623]

Chevalier, Fabienne H.G. 2009. The facework of unfinished turns in French conversation. Discourse Studies 11 (3) : 267–284.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | face maintenance | interaction | problem solving | turn

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper explores the facework of unfinished French conversational turns, normally used in delicate/problematic talk, arguing that only an interactional-sequential explanation reveals the interactional facework that they fulfill.