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Author:   Christine Cheepen
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.390kg
ISBN:  

9780861877072

ISBN 10:   0861877071
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   01 November 1988
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Introduction: theoretical context; goal as a determining factor in speech encounters; status as a framework for speech encounters; nature and function of data. Part 1 Some approaches to interactional encounters: discourse manangement and topical goal; placement of topics; progression towards and digression from topical goal; interactional encounters and the classroom discourse model; interactional encounters and phatic communion; Malinowski and language as a mode of behaviour; phatic communion as interactional language. Part 2 Goal and status: fixed status and transactional encounters; variable status and interactional encounters. Part 3 Transactional (fixed status) encounters: an analysis of job interviews; opening and closing phases in job interviews; interactional breaks during transaction; turn taking; an analysis of a tutorial; opening and closing phases in tutorial; interaction and topic movement. Part 4 Interactional (variable status) encounters: categories defined; speech-in-action; story; closing; analysis of interactions with examples; telephone interactions; face to face interactions; Laver's model and introductions. Part 5 Repairs in interactional dialogue: practical troubles and their repairs; interactional troubles and their repairs; status as a source of interactional trouble; where interactional trouble can arise; causes of trouble and resulting repair work; covertly acknowledged trouble and scapegoat repairs; depersonification; alienation by imperative; evaluation conflict; scapegoat repairs in the London-Lund Corpus; negative evaluation unconnected with repairs.

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