Conversational routine
Subtitle: explorations in standardized communication situations and prepatterned speech
By: edited by Florian Coulmas.
Contributors: Coulmas, Florian.
Series: Rasmus Rask studies in pragmatic linguistics ;; v. 2; Janua linguarum.; 96
Publisher: Mouton
Published: 1981
Place of publication: The Hague; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Conversation; Discourse analysis; Speech acts (Linguistics); Etiquette
Description: This collection of essays addresses the notion of 'conversational routine', and explores the characteristics of some of the more prepatterned, formulaic, and conventionalized aspects of conversational activity from a variety of perspectives. In his preface, Coulmas claims conversational interaction has its own rules, different from a linguist's notion of 'rule', and that 'conversational rules and routines purport to structure and make possible both the predictable and the non-predictable aspects of conversation' (p. x). Hence the importance of this relatively unexplored side of conversational patterning. Of the thirteen papers included here, three have been previously published in academic journals; the rest are new. Half the authors are European, half are North American; and their disciplines range through linguistics, English, educational linguistics, language teaching, sociology, and psycholinguistics. -- From http://www.jstor.org (Feb. 13, 2015).
Notes: Bibliography: p. [305]-318.
Includes indexes.