RT Book, Whole SR Electronic(1) A1 Carlson, Lauri YR 1984 T1 ‘Well’ in Dialogue Games: A discourse analysis of the interjection ‘well’ in idealized conversation PB John Benjamins UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027280015, AB This dialogue game approach to the discourse analysis of the English interjection well aims at the formulation of rules which would be informative (marking some contexts of use as more natural than others), systematic (applicable in a mechanical or at least in a non-ad hoc way), and adequate (showing putative competitors to be either false to fact, too narrow or too wide, or demonstrably equivalent).