Supportive Fellow-Speakers and Cooperative Conversations
Discourse topics and topical actions, participant roles and 'recipientaction' in a particular type of everyday conversation
- Author(s): Wolfram Bublitz
- Format: PDF
- Publication Date January 1988
- e-Book ISBN: 9789027274403
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/z.32
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'.
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