Supportive Fellow-Speakers and Cooperative Conversations: Discourse topics and topical actions, participant roles and 'recipientaction' in a particular type of everyday conversation
Author:   Wolfram Bublitz
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
ISBN:  

9789027220547


Pages:   308
Publication Date:   01 January 1988
Format:   Hardback
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Supportive Fellow-Speakers and Cooperative Conversations: Discourse topics and topical actions, participant roles and 'recipientaction' in a particular type of everyday conversation


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"This text studies 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 analysis 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""."

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Author:   Wolfram Bublitz
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Weight:   0.710kg
ISBN:  

9789027220547


ISBN 10:   9027220549
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   01 January 1988
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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1. Acknowledgements; 2. Notational Conventions; 3. 1. Introduction; 4. 2. Handling the discourse topic; 5. 3. Recipient action: the role of the hearer and the secondary speaker; 6. 4. Striving for mutual agreement: a particularity of the type of everyday conversation analysed; 7. Notes; 8. References; 9. Name Index; 10. Subject Index

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