Overview

This dialogue game approach to the discourse analysis of the English interjection well aims at the formulation of rules which would be informative (marking some contexts of use as more natural than others), systematic (applicable in a mechanical or at least in a non-ad hoc way), and adequate (showing putative competitors to be either false to fact, too narrow or too wide, or demonstrably equivalent).

Full Product Details

Author:   Lauri Carlson
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   V:5
Weight:   0.190kg
ISBN:  

9789027225399

ISBN 10:   9027225397
Pages:   104
Publication Date:   01 January 1984
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgements; 2. 1. Introduction; 3. 1.1. Aims; 4. 1.2. Idealizations; 5. 1.3. Chapter outlines; 6. 2. Theory; 7. 2.1. Dialogue games; 8. 2.2. Conversational analysis; 9. 2.3. Computational models of dialogue; 10. 3. Earlier Treatments of Well; 11. 3.1. Lakoff (1973a); 12. 3.2. Murray (1979); 13. 3.3. Svartvik (1980); 14. 3.4. Owen (1981); 15. 4. The Present Treatment; 16. 4.1. The hypothesis; 17. 4.2. Development of the hypothesis; 18. 4.3. Data and classification; 19. 5. Well as a Qualifier; 20. 5.1. Question-answer exchanges; 21. 5.2. Other exchanges; 22. 6. Well as a Frame; 23. 6.1. Opening a dialogue; 24. 6.2. Transition situations; 25. 6.3. Closing; 26. 6.4. Turn internal cases; 27. 7. Contrastive Studies; 28. 7.1. Well vs. oh; 29. 7.2. Well and Finnish no; 30. 7.3. Schourup (1983); 31. 8. Extensions; 32. 8.1. Politeness; 33. 8.2. Emotions; 34. 8.3. Well in writing; 35. Footnotes; 36. Sources of Examples; 37. References

Reviews

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions