Publications

Publication details [#56149]

Pudlinski, Christopher. 2012. The pursuit of advice on US peer telephone helplines: Sequential and functional aspects. In Locher, Miriam A. and Holger Limberg, eds. Advice in Discourse. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 221). John Benjamins. pp. 233–252.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

advising | peer group | rejecting | repeating | telephone conversation

Language as a subject

English, American

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

Annotation

This article explores three distinct sequential and functional orientations to peer support line advice seeking in the northeastern U.S. after initial rejection. These increased advice pursuit sequences also contain repeated and indirect advice, and alternative options.