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When listeners talk : response tokens and listener stance /
Listeners are usually considered recipients in conversational interaction, whose main activity is to take in messages from other speakers. In this view, the listening activity is separate from speaking. Another view is that listeners and speakers are equal co-participants in conversations who constr...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub.,
©2001.
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| Series: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser. 92. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Listeners are usually considered recipients in conversational interaction, whose main activity is to take in messages from other speakers. In this view, the listening activity is separate from speaking. Another view is that listeners and speakers are equal co-participants in conversations who construct the talk together. In support of this latter view, one finds a group of vocalisations which are quintessentially listener talk -- little conversational objects such as uh-huh, oh, mm, yeah, right and mm-hm. These utterances do not have meanings in a conventional dictionary sense, but are neverthe. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 281 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027297426 9027297428 1282161881 9781282161887 9786612161889 6612161884 |
| ISSN: | 0922-842X ; |