Telephone conversations revisited: : A cross-cultural study of conversational mechanisms employed over the telephone in Ecuadorian Spanish and British English

This thesis is a proposal for a new approach to the investigation of the language of telephone conversations. It strives to integrate the framework of analysis advocated by conversation analysts (originally the first to examine these conversations) and that of pragmaticists, in an attempt to provide...

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Main Author: Placencia, Maria Elena
Published: Lancaster University 1991
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315139