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Publication details [#9937]
Weiner, Susan L. and Donald R. Goodenough. 1977. A move toward a psychology of conversation. In Freedle, Roy O., ed. Discourse production and comprehension. Ablex Publishing Company. pp. 213–225.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
The 'conversational move' is proposed as a basic unit of both speech production and comprehension. On the production side it is an action taken by a speaker to accomplish something with words.