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Publication details [#55449]

Ong, Kenneth Keng Wee. 2011. Disagreement, confusion, disapproval, turn elicitation and floor holding: Actions as accomplished by ellipsis marks-only turns and blank turns in quasisynchronous chats. Discourse Studies 13 (2) : 211–234.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | ellipsis | holding the floor | internet | turn

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This conversation analytic study explores the preference organization of elliptical turns in quasisynchronous chats, that elucidate various turn actions which comprise responses notifying discord, confusion and disapproval besides initial turn eliciting response and floor holding actions