When listeners talk : response tokens and listener stance / Rod Gardner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gardner, Rod.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 92.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 92

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversation analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Listeners are usually considered recipients in conversational interaction, whose main activity is to take in messages from other speakers. In this view, the listening activity is separate from speaking. Another view is that listeners and speakers are equal co-participants in conversations who construct the talk together. In support of this latter view, one finds a group of vocalisations which are quintessentially listener talk - little conversational objects such as uh-huh, oh, mm, yeah, right and mm-hm. These utterances do not have meanings in a conventional dictionary sense, but are neverthe

Contents:

When Listeners Talk; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Contents; Acknowledgements; Transcription notation; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: A review of response tokens; Chapter 3: Five types of Mm; Chapter 4: From continuer to acknowledgement token; Chapter 5: The Weakness of Mm; Chapter 6: Intonation contour and the use of Mm; Chapter 7: Summary and future directions; Notes; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-281) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612161889

9781282161887

1282161881

9789027297426

9027297428

OCLC:

302339230