“Lovely”: turn-initial high-grade assessments in telephone closings  

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Antaki, Charles

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse Studies (Full Text) vol. 4 no. 1 (Feb. 2002), page 5-23.
Topik: assessments; closings; conversation analysis; telephone calls
Fulltext: 5DES31.pdf (108.49KB)

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Do high-grade assessments (such as “lovely” and “brilliant”) have a use in marking episodes in mundane conversation? Inspection suggests that closing sequences in telephone conversations, when they include such embedded actions as making arrangements, have a slot which can be filled by a turn-initial high-grade assessment. I suggest that the high-grade assessment makes a special display of resuming a closing which had been suspended. I make a link between marked resumption in such mundane closings and more institutional agenda-marking, and speculate that using a resumptive highgrade assessment might display a claim to ‘ownership’ of the closedown sequence

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