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

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 interpreta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bublitz, Wolfram
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1988.
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  • SUPPORTIVE FELLOW-SPEAKERS AND COOPERATIVE CONVERSATIONS; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; NOTATIONAL CONVENTIONS; Introduction; 1.1. Starting point and preliminary review; 1.2. Guide to corpus, procedure and terminology; 1.2.1. Corpus; 1.2.2. Procedure; Handling the discourse topic; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Describing the discourse topic; 2.2.1. Asking about the discourse topic: What are you talking about?; 2.2.2. Answering: We have been talking about ... ; 2.2.3. Topic subjects and connected speech acts; 2.2.4. Conclusion; 2.3. Coherence in everyday conversation.
  • 2.3.1. Introduction2.3.2. Coherence; 2.3.3. Topical coherence; 2.4. Topical actions; 2.4.1. On the complexity of topical actions; 2.4.2. INTRODUCING A TOPIC; 2.4.2.1. When to introduce a new topic; 2.4.2.2. Topic introduction in the initial phase of an interview; 2.4.2.3. Speech subjects and preliminary actions in the initial phase of everyday conversation; 2.4.2.4. Topic introduction as a non-complex procedure; 2.4.2.5. Topic introduction as a complex procedure; 2.4.2.6. Linguistic means of topic introduction; 2.4.2.7. Conclusion; 2.4.3. CHANGING A TOPIC.
  • 2.4.3.1. Topic change as a complex topical action2.4.3.2. CHANGING A TOPIC VS SHIFTING A TOPIC; 2.4.3.3. Types of topic change; 2.4.4. The normal case: CHANGING A TOPIC by mutual consent; 2.4.4.1. Introduction; 2.4.4.2. How
  • and when
  • to change a topic; 2.4.4.2.1. Preparing and effecting the topic change; 2.4.4.2.2. Topic change and speaker change; 2.4.4.2.3. Three options for CHANGING A TOPIC; 2.4.4.2.4. Topic change following speaker change; 2.4.4.2.5. Some reasons for (not) CHANGING A TOPIC; 2.4.4.2.6. Conclusion; 2.4.4.3. Controlling the conversation by CHANGING A TOPIC.
  • 2.4.4.3.1. CHANGING A TOPIC as a multiple action2.4.4.3.2. Topic continuity; 2.4.4.3.3. Limitations on topic selection; 2.4.5. The special case: DIGRESSING FROM A TOPIC; 2.4.5.1. A preliminary look at the fundamental features of digression; 2.4.5.2. Analysis I: 'Looped' topic structure; 2.4.5.3. Analysis II : 'Bracketed' topic structure; 2.4.5.4. Types of digression and their restrictions; 2.4.5.4.1. Three restrictions for digression; 2.4.5.4.2. Comprehension-securing digression; 2.4.5.4.3. Spontaneous digression; 2.4.5.4.4. When to digress; 2.4.5.5. Linguistic means of digression.
  • 2.4.5.5.1. Marking the beginning of a digression: by the way and incidentally2.4.5.5.2. Marking the end of a digression: anyway; 2.4.5.6. Controlling the conversation by DIGRESSING FROM A TOPIC; 2.4.6. SHIFTING A TOPIC; 2.4.6.1. Fundamental features of topic shift; 2.4.6.2. Controlling the conversation by SHIFTING A TOPIC; 2.4.7. CLOSING A TOPIC; 2.4.7.1. Ways of CLOSING A TOPIC; 2.4.7.2. BREAKING OFF A TOPIC; 2.5. The role of topics and topical actions in controlling everyday conversation; Recipient action: the role of the hearer and the secondary speaker; 3.1. Introduction.