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Publication details [#65763]

Greer, Tim. 2019. Initiating and delivering news of the day: Interactional competence as joint-development. Journal of Pragmatics 146 : 150–164.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | dinner conversation | interaction properties | L2-acquisition | storytelling

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper handles news-of-the-day tellings in dinner-table talk in a short-run homestay context. At first, the tellings are short and mainly imply evaluations. Recipients handle this as unfitting by starting post-extensions. Familiarization with the routine occasions expanded storytelling.