Author : Wolfram Bublitz
Release : 1988-01-01
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 401/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Supportive Fellow-Speakers and Cooperative Conversations by : Wolfram Bublitz
Download or read book Supportive Fellow-Speakers and Cooperative Conversations written by Wolfram Bublitz. This book was released on 1988-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of a specific type of everyday conversation whose essential hallmark is its participants' attempt to gain agreement and consent when establishing and maintaining a continuous and coherent flow of talk. Basing his analyses on the Survey'-corpus and resorting to an interpretative, reconstructive mode of description, Bublitz focusses on two main phenomena: (a) discourse topic and topical actions (like INTRODUCING and CHANGING A TOPIC or DIGRESSING from it), (b) hearer signals and reactive speaker contributions. The interlocutors' topic-centered and topic-organizing behaviour is shown to be predominantly and systematically oriented towards supporting their fellow-speakers to the extent that it seems to be justified to regard large parts of these conversations as having a monological character'.
