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ERIC Number: EJ682757
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004
Pages: 23
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0163-853X
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Navigating Joint Projects in Telephone Conversations
Bangerter, Adrian; Clark, Herbert H.; Katz, Anna R.
Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, v37 n1 p1-23 2004
Conversation coordinates joint activities and the joint projects that compose them. Participants coordinate (1) vertical transitions on entering and exiting joint projects; and (2) horizontal transitions in continuing within them. Transitions are coordinated using project markers such as uh-huh, yeah, right, and okay. In the authors' proposal, participants use uh-huh, yeah, and right to continue within joint projects, and okay and all right to enter and exit them. This was examined in 2 telephone conversation corpora. Telephone conversations divide into an entry, body, and exit phase, each of which is a joint project. Okay and all right were used to transit from the entry to body and from body to exit, whereas uh-huh, yeah, and right were used within the body.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: N/A
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Language: English
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