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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453201003321

Autore

Gardner Rod

Titolo

When Listeners Talk [[electronic resource] ] : Response tokens and listener stance

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam/Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001

ISBN

1-282-16188-1

9786612161889

90-272-9742-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series

Disciplina

302.3/46

401/.41

Soggetti

Conversation analysis

Conversation

Oral communication

Communication & Mass Media

Journalism & Communications

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

When Listeners Talk; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Contents; Acknowledgements; Transcription notation; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: A review of response tokens; Chapter 3: Five types of Mm; Chapter 4: From continuer to acknowledgement token; Chapter 5: The Weakness of Mm; Chapter 6: Intonation contour and the use of Mm; Chapter 7: Summary and future directions; Notes; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

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