Collaboration on Topic Change in Conversation
Conversations are cooperatively achieved speech events. Analysis of topic changes shows that topic endings are negotiated by participants over a series of turns, using the following specific types of indicators: summary assessments, acknowledgment tokens, repetition, laughter, and pauses. This analy...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Kansas
1991-01-01
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| Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/421 |