On some discourse items as response elicitors in English face-to-face and telephone conversation
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| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Theory and Practice in English Studies 3, Proceedings from the Eighth Conference of British, American and Canadian Studies (Linguistics), edited by Jan Chovanec |
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| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | discourse items - face-to-face conversation - telephone conversation - spoken interaction |
| Description | Based on the analysis of three face-to-face and three telephone conversations, the author tries to contribute to the study of interactive discourse items as response elicitors. They are studied with regard to what they prompt from the current hearer: 1/ verbal response, 2/ backchannel signal, or 3/ no verbal reaction at all. The author concludes that their use is dependent on the presence/absence of the face-to-face contact between interlocutors in a given communicative situation. |