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Title The pragmatics of interaction / edited by Sigurd D'hondt, Jan-Ola Östman, Jef Verschueren
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 262 pages) : illustrations
Series Handbook of pragmatics highlights ; v. 4
Handbook of pragmatics highlights ; v. 4.
Contents The Pragmatics of Interaction; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of Contents; Preface to the series; Acknowledgements; The pragmatics of interaction: A survey; Communicative style; Conversation Analysis; Conversation types; Ethnomethodology; Erving Goffman; Interactional linguistics; Listener response; Participation; Politeness; Prosody; Reported speech; Harvey Sacks; Sequence; Transcription systems for spoken discourse; Index; The series Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights
Summary The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, variational, or discursive angles, this fourth volume is dedicated to the empirical investigation of the way human beings organize their interaction in natural environments and how they use talk for accomplishing actions and their contexts. Starting from Goffman's observation that interaction exhibits
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Pragmatics.
Social interaction.
pragmatics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
Pragmatics
Social interaction
Form Electronic book
Author D'hondt, Sigurd.
Östman, Jan-Ola.
Verschueren, Jef.
LC no. 2009022919
ISBN 9789027289193
9027289190
902720781X
9789027207814
1282312308
9781282312302
9786612312304
6612312300