'Well' in Dialogue Games
A discourse analysis of the interjection 'well' in idealized conversation
Published on 1. January 1984
Book
Paperback/Softback
104 pages
978-0-915027-27-9 (ISBN)
Description
This dialogue game approach to the discourse analysis of the English interjection well aims at the formulation of rules which would be informative (marking some contexts of use as more natural than others), systematic (applicable in a mechanical or at least in a non-ad hoc way), and adequate (showing putative competitors to be either false to fact, too narrow or too wide, or demonstrably equivalent).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
190 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-915027-27-9 (9780915027279)
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Content
1. Acknowledgements; 2. 1. Introduction; 3. 1.1. Aims; 4. 1.2. Idealizations; 5. 1.3. Chapter outlines; 6. 2. Theory; 7. 2.1. Dialogue games; 8. 2.2. Conversational analysis; 9. 2.3. Computational models of dialogue; 10. 3. Earlier Treatments of Well; 11. 3.1. Lakoff (1973a); 12. 3.2. Murray (1979); 13. 3.3. Svartvik (1980); 14. 3.4. Owen (1981); 15. 4. The Present Treatment; 16. 4.1. The hypothesis; 17. 4.2. Development of the hypothesis; 18. 4.3. Data and classification; 19. 5. Well as a Qualifier; 20. 5.1. Question-answer exchanges; 21. 5.2. Other exchanges; 22. 6. Well as a Frame; 23. 6.1. Opening a dialogue; 24. 6.2. Transition situations; 25. 6.3. Closing; 26. 6.4. Turn internal cases; 27. 7. Contrastive Studies; 28. 7.1. Well vs. oh; 29. 7.2. Well and Finnish no; 30. 7.3. Schourup (1983); 31. 8. Extensions; 32. 8.1. Politeness; 33. 8.2. Emotions; 34. 8.3. Well in writing; 35. Footnotes; 36. Sources of Examples; 37. References