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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807038903321

Titolo

The language of turn and sequence / / edited by Cecilia E. Ford, Barbara A. Fox, Sandra A. Thompson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002

ISBN

0-19-772193-1

1-280-83086-7

0-19-535232-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 pages)

Collana

Oxford studies in sociolinguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

FordCecilia E

FoxBarbara A

ThompsonSandra A

Disciplina

302.3/46

306.44

Soggetti

Conversation analysis

Oral communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Constituency and the Grammar of Turn Increments; 3. Cultivating Prayer; 4. Producing Sense with Nonsense Syllables: Turn and Sequence in Conversations with a Man with Severe Aphasia; 5. Contingent Achievement of Co-Tellership in a Japanese Conversation: An Analysis of Talk, Gaze, and Gesture; 6. Saying What Wasn't Said: Negative Observation as a Linguistic Resource for the Interactional Achievement of Performance Feedback; 7. Recipient Activities: The Particle No as a Go-Ahead Response in Finnish Conversations

8. Oh-Prefaced Responses to Assessments: A Method of Modifying Agreement/Disagreement9. Turn-Sharing: The Choral Co-Production of Talk-in-Interaction; 10. Some Linguistic Aspects of Closure Cut-Off; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Bringing together current research that is strongly influenced by the conversational analytic (CA) approach to understanding language use, this text emphasises what the methods and findings of CA can offer to discourse-functional linguistics.