1st Edition
Conversation and Discourse Structure and Interpretation
Edited By Paul Werth
Copyright 1981
186 Pages
by
Routledge
185 Pages
by
Routledge
185 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1981, Conversation and Discourse attempts to draw together papers illustrating the various different approaches to conversational analysis broadly divided into papers of description and experiment on one hand and papers of theory and analysis on the other. The ordinary speaker finds conversation to be by far the easiest variety of language and it is perhaps for this reason... Read more
Introduction Part I: Description and Experiment 1. Aspects of Conversational Structure in the Research Interview 2. Instrumentality Selection in Naturally-occurring Conversation: A Research Agenda 3. Some Strategies for Sustaining Conversation 4. Developmental Aspects of Communication: Young Children’s Use of Referring Expressions Part II: Theory and Analysis 5. Conversational Units and the Use of ‘Well…’ 6. Thematisation of Luo 7. The Concept of ‘Relevance’ in Conversational Analysis 8. On Grice’s Theory of Conversation Notes on Contributors Index
Biography
Paul Werth
