Supportive Fellow-Speakers and Cooperative Conversations. Discourse Topics and Topical Actions, Participant Roles and 'Recipient Action' in a Particular Type of Everyday Conversation.

Bublitz, Wolfram:

ISBN 10: 9027220549 / ISBN 13: 9789027220547

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam - Philadelphia,, 1988

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IX, 308 S. Orig.-Pappband. - Rücken gering nachgedunkelt. Ansonsten sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar. Innen sauber.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Supportive Fellow-Speakers and Cooperative Conversations. Discourse Topics and Topical Actions, Participant Roles and 'Recipient Action' in a Particular Type of Everyday Conversation.
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam - Philadelphia,
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027220549
• ISBN 13: 9789027220547
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Linguistik

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Synopsis

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'.