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Publication details [#6612]

Maynard, Douglas W. 1980. Placement of topic changes in conversation. Semiotica 30 (3-4) : 263–290.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational strategy | topic change

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

Topicality is not only a matter of content, but is partly constituted by the procedures conversationalists utilize to display understanding and to achieve one turn's proper fit with a prior one. Some of these procedures are treated in this paper insofar as they bear on topic change.