Conversation and Discourse

Klappentext

First published in 1981, Conversation and Discourse attempts to draw together papers illustrating the various different approaches to conversational analysis broadly divided into papers of description and experiment on one hand and papers of theory and analysis on the other.

Inhalt

Introduction Part I: Description and Experiment 1. Aspects of Conversational Structure in the Research Interview 2. Instrumentality Selection in Naturally-occurring Conversation: A Research Agenda 3. Some Strategies for Sustaining Conversation 4. Developmental Aspects of Communication: Young Children's Use of Referring Expressions Part II: Theory and Analysis 5. Conversational Units and the Use of 'Well...' 6. Thematisation of Luo 7. The Concept of 'Relevance' in Conversational Analysis 8. On Grice's Theory of Conversation Notes on Contributors Index