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Schegloff, Emanuel A. 1972. Notes on a conversational practice: Formulating place. In Sudnow, David, ed. Studies in social interaction. The Free Press. pp. 75–119.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English

Annotation

After introducing the notion of 'insertion sequences' (i.e. question-answer sequences inserted between an initial question and its answer), S. addresses the following problem: a location can be described in several different ways; how is it that on particular occasions of use some members of the set of possible descriptions will be selected whereas others will be rejected?

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