Supportive fellow-speakers and cooperative conversations : discourse topics and topical actions, participant roles and 'recipient action' in a particular type of everyday conversation / by Wolfram Bublitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bublitz, Wolfram.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversation.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 focuses 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 sh

Contents:

SUPPORTIVE FELLOW-SPEAKERS AND COOPERATIVE CONVERSATIONS; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; NOTATIONAL CONVENTIONS; Introduction; 1.1. Starting point and preliminary review; 1.2. Guide to corpus, procedure and terminology; 1.2.1. Corpus; 1.2.2. Procedure; Handling the discourse topic; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Describing the discourse topic; 2.2.1. Asking about the discourse topic: What are you talking about?; 2.2.2. Answering: We have been talking about...; 2.2.3. Topic subjects and connected speech acts; 2.2.4. Conclusion; 2.3. Coherence in everyday conversation

2.3.1. Introduction 2.3.2. Coherence; 2.3.3. Topical coherence; 2.4. Topical actions; 2.4.1. On the complexity of topical actions; 2.4.2. INTRODUCING A TOPIC; 2.4.2.1. When to introduce a new topic; 2.4.2.2. Topic introduction in the initial phase of an interview; 2.4.2.3. Speech subjects and preliminary actions in the initial phase of everyday conversation; 2.4.2.4. Topic introduction as a non-complex procedure; 2.4.2.5. Topic introduction as a complex procedure; 2.4.2.6. Linguistic means of topic introduction; 2.4.2.7. Conclusion; 2.4.3. CHANGING A TOPIC

2.4.3.1. Topic change as a complex topical action 2.4.3.2. CHANGING A TOPIC VS SHIFTING A TOPIC; 2.4.3.3. Types of topic change; 2.4.4. The normal case: CHANGING A TOPIC by mutual consent; 2.4.4.1. Introduction; 2.4.4.2. How - and when - to change a topic; 2.4.4.2.1. Preparing and effecting the topic change; 2.4.4.2.2. Topic change and speaker change; 2.4.4.2.3. Three options for CHANGING A TOPIC; 2.4.4.2.4. Topic change following speaker change; 2.4.4.2.5. Some reasons for (not) CHANGING A TOPIC; 2.4.4.2.6. Conclusion; 2.4.4.3. Controlling the conversation by CHANGING A TOPIC

2.4.4.3.1. CHANGING A TOPIC as a multiple action 2.4.4.3.2. Topic continuity; 2.4.4.3.3. Limitations on topic selection; 2.4.5. The special case: DIGRESSING FROM A TOPIC; 2.4.5.1. A preliminary look at the fundamental features of digression; 2.4.5.2. Analysis I: 'Looped' topic structure; 2.4.5.3. Analysis II : 'Bracketed' topic structure; 2.4.5.4. Types of digression and their restrictions; 2.4.5.4.1. Three restrictions for digression; 2.4.5.4.2. Comprehension-securing digression; 2.4.5.4.3. Spontaneous digression; 2.4.5.4.4. When to digress; 2.4.5.5. Linguistic means of digression

2.4.5.5.1. Marking the beginning of a digression: by the way and incidentally 2.4.5.5.2. Marking the end of a digression: anyway; 2.4.5.6. Controlling the conversation by DIGRESSING FROM A TOPIC; 2.4.6. SHIFTING A TOPIC; 2.4.6.1. Fundamental features of topic shift; 2.4.6.2. Controlling the conversation by SHIFTING A TOPIC; 2.4.7. CLOSING A TOPIC; 2.4.7.1. Ways of CLOSING A TOPIC; 2.4.7.2. BREAKING OFF A TOPIC; 2.5. The role of topics and topical actions in controlling everyday conversation; Recipient action: the role of the hearer and the secondary speaker; 3.1. Introduction

3.2. Describing the participant roles

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-42409-6

9786613424099

90-272-7440-1

OCLC:

796384165