The gift of the gab. Anthropology and conversation analysis

This paper discusses the fine-grain analysis of conversation and how conversational structure is related to larger issues of social organisation. Mauss's analysis of "the Gift" is related to "adjacency pairs" and the patterns of turn-taking that form conversational structure...

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Autor principal: Zeitlyn, D
Formato: Journal article
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Anthropos Institute 2004