When listeners talk response tokens and listener stance
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| Sprache: | English |
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Amsterdam
J. Benjamins Pub.
©2001
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| Schriftenreihe: | Pragmatics & beyond
92 |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281) and indexes 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; The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES. 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 281 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9027297428 9789027297426 |