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doi:10.22028/D291-23553
Title: | Ratifying and rejecting listener assessments in the course of multi-unit turns |
Author(s): | Norrick, Neal R. |
Other involved persons: | Gerhardt, Cornelia |
Language: | English |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
OPUS Source: | SWPL. - 3.2009, p. 1-20 |
SWD key words: | Konversation Bewertung Hörer |
Free key words: | Hörersignale Redebeiträge assessments conversation evaluation listener responses multi-unit turns |
DDC notations: | 400 Language, linguistics |
Publikation type: | Report |
Abstract: | This article investigates the effects listener assessments can have on the course of a multi-unit turn. Specifically, listener assessments can elicit responses from the primary speaker and thus generate talk in their own right. The primary speaker may orient to the content of listener assessments and respond to them in various (positive or negative) ways, suspending the multi-unit turn in progress to comment or altering the direction of the turn. Shared assessments can lead to higher involvement and increased rapport with consequences for subsequent interaction between the participants. Rejections of listener assessments are much less frequent than ratifications: rejection of a listener assessment expresses the teller's refusal to have it count as part of the overall evaluation of the multi-unit turn in progress. |
Link to this record: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-scidok-33954 hdl:20.500.11880/23609 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-23553 |
Date of registration: | 10-Nov-2010 |
Faculty: | P - Philosophische Fakultät |
Department: | P - Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophone Kulturen |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes Saarland Working Papers in Linguistics (SWPL) |
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