SEM142 - Conversation - An Overview
Channel: The Virtual Linguistics Campus
Date: 2012-09-16

What is conversation and what are the main principles of organizing it? These are the main questions that are discussed in this E-Lecture which looks at the central aspects of deixis, the principles of local referencing, the rules according to which speakers take turn and, most importantly, the Co-operative principle. its maxims and the  mechanisms of drawing implicatures.