Features of naturalness in conversation / Martin Warren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warren, Martin, 1962-

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 152.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; v. 152

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversation analysis.

Discourse analysis.

Naturalness (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The study describes a detailed and original piece of research work, investigating a very important genre of human communication, and that is conversation. It provides a definition of the genre of conversation by describing nine features of conversation, namely multiple sources, discourse coherence, language as doing, co-operation, unfolding, open-endedness, artifacts, inexplicitness and shared responsibility. These nine features of naturalness in conversation serve to distinguish conversation from specialized discourse types. The study illustrates the nine defining features of conversation with authentic conversational data collected surreptitiously in England. While this study is of native speakers of English, the nine defining features of naturalness of English conversation are applicable to conversations conducted in other languages.

Contents:

Features of Naturalness in Conversation

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

Why study conversation?

Specialised discourse types

Approaches to the study of spoken discourse

Defining conversation

Naturalness

Nine features of naturalness in conversation

Chapter 2: Data

Introduction

Naturally occurring conversation

Data size

Surreptitious data

The data collected for this study

Conclusions

Chapter 3: Multiple sources

Turn-taking

Definition of a turn

Turn-taking "rules"

Self-selection of turns in conversation

Turn-taking in other types of spoken discourse

Maintenance of face and status

Chapter 4: Determination of discourse coherence

Elements of discourse coherence

Alignment

Intonation

Prominence

Tone

Key and termination

Language about language

Feedback

Chapter 5: Language as doing

Speech acts

Transactional and interactional language

Ranking discourse types

Phatic communion

Language as doing

Chapter 6: Co-operation

Grice's co-operative principle

Criticisms and limitations of Grice's co-operative principle

The spirit of co-operation in conversation

Solicited assistance

Unsolicited assistance - utterance completion

Interruptions

Co-operative interruptions

Assertive interruptions

Appropriacy

Skip-connecting

Topic as a product of co-operative effort

Chapter 7: Unfolding

Adjacency pairs

Exchange structure

Prospection

Pitch concord

Chapter 8: Open-endedness

Open-endedness versus unpredictability

Topic and topic framework

Topic drift

Challenge moves.

Topic shift

Chapter 9: Artefacts

Artefacts

Openings and closings

Beginnings and endings

Chapter 10: Inexplicitness

Context

Inexplicitness

Forms of inexplicitness

Ellipsis and Substitution

Deixis and reference

Inexplicitness and lexical density

Impacting levels of inexplicitness

Strict linguistic inference

Interpreting inexplicitness in conversation

Chapter 11: Shared responsibility

Shared responsibility

Topic control

Speaker overlap and turn-taking

Initiating moves

Responsibility for determination

Responsibility and co-operation

Implications for data collection

Chapter 12: Conclusions

The nine features of naturalness in conversation

A model of naturalness of conversation

References

Transcription notation

Name index

Subject index

The Pragmatics &amp

Beyond New Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-261) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612154973

9781282154971

1282154974

9789027292858

902729285X

OCLC:

191949462