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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457603303321

Titolo

Conversation [[electronic resource] ] : cognitive, communicative and social perspectives / / edited by T. Givón

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c1997

ISBN

1-283-31234-4

9786613312341

90-272-7579-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Typological studies in language, , 0167-7373 ; ; v. 34

Altri autori (Persone)

GivónTalmy <1936->

Disciplina

302.3/46

Soggetti

Conversation analysis

Oral communication

Discourse analysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers; all except one were originally presented at the Symposium on Conversation held July 1995 at the University of New Mexico.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CONVERSATIONCOGNITIVE, COMMUNICATIVE AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Editor's Preface; Dialoguedespite Difficulties A Study of Communication between Aphasic and Unimpaired Speakers; Polyphonic Topic Development; The Construction of a Collaborative Floor in Women's Friendly Talk; Memory and Conversation Toward an Experimental Paradigm; The Occasioning and Structure of Conversational Stories; Coherence in Multi-Party Conversation Episodes and Contexts in Interaction; Choosing the Right Quantifier Usage in the Context of Communication

Conflict Talk Understanding and Resolving ArgumentsCommunicating Evaluation in Narrative Understanding

Sommario/riassunto

The papers in this volume were originally presented at the Symposium on Conversation, held at the University of New Mexico in July 1995. The symposium brought together scholars who work on face-to-face communication from a variety of perspectives: social, cultural, cognitive and communicative. Our aim for both the symposium and this volume



has been to challenge some of the prevailing dichotomies in discourse studies: First, the cleavage between the study of information flow and the study of social interaction. Second, the theoretical division between speech-situation models and cognitive model