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Publication details [#52996]

Tannen, Deborah. 2010. Abduction and identity in family interaction: Ventriloquizing as indirectness. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (2) : 307–316.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

family conversation | identity negotiation | indirectness | intertextuality | meaning, processing of

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study uses the example of ventriloquizing in family conversation, whereby speakers borrow others’ identities and voices, thus creating meaning by abduction, to obtain a more inclusive comprehension of indirectness in interaction.