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Publication details [#61302]

Karlsson, Susanna. 2016. Transfer of telephone conversations as a transition between call-takers. Journal of Pragmatics 96 : 1–14.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This study explores how 126 telephone conversations, where transfer is clearly pursued by at least one of the participants, are transmitted and re-opened in calls to the Swedish Board for Student Support. Call-takers make certain that callers realize that they are being transmitted and some even frame the re-opened call as transferred, whereas others don’t; in the latter case, the interactional charge of fixing a common frame for the call as transmitted lies with the caller.