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Publication details [#5915]

Lakoff, Robin Tolmach and Deborah F. Tannen. 1979. Communicative strategies in conversation: The case of 'scenes from a marriage'. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 5 : 581–592.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
clarity | communicative competence | conversational strategy | intimacy | politeness | social distance

Annotation

General discussion of communicative competence, in which four principal foci are distinguished: distance, deference, cameraderie and clarity.