Supportive Fellow-speakers Corp. Conver
This is a study of a specific type of everyday conversation whose essential hallmark is its participants' attempt to gain agreement and consent when establishing and maintaining a continuous and coherent flow of talk. Basing his analyses on the Survey'-corpus and resorting to an interpretative, reconstructive mode of description, Bublitz focusses on two main phenomena: (a) discourse topic and topical actions (like INTRODUCING and CHANGING A TOPIC or DIGRESSING from it), (b) hearer signals and reactive speaker contributions. The interlocutors' topic-centered and topic-organizing behaviour is shown to be predominantly and systematically oriented towards supporting their fellow-speakers to the extent that it seems to be justified to regard large parts of these conversations as having a monological character'.
308 pages, 2 editions
Other (nl) edition · First published 1988 by Benjamins B.V., John · ISBN 9789027220547
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- Supportive Fellow-speakers Corp. Conver · Benjamins B.V., John · 1988 · ISBN 9789027220547 This page
- Supportive Fellow-speakers Corp. Conver · Benjamins B.V., John · 1988 · ISBN 9789027220585
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