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Godard, Danièle. 1977. Same setting, different norms: Phone call beginnings in France and the United States. Language in Society 6 (2) : 209–219.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational opening | social norm | telephone conversation | value

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Annotation

A contrast in the expected behavior of the caller and answerer at the beginning of telephone conversations at a private residence in the U.S. and France is related to different values attached to telephone calls as speech events.