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Publication details [#54881]

Local, John, Paul Drew and Traci Walker. 2011. Responding indirectly. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (9) : 2423–2451.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative efficiency | everyday conversation | indirectness | response | social constraint

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper explores the sequential environments in which indirectness is employed in everyday conversations. This innovative approach permits to demonstrate what interactional pressures there are for speakers to respond indirectly.