This book analyses the communicative structure of interpersonal, or
casual, conversation. The author shows how the balance of
conversation can be upset by variations in the status of the
participants during the conversation and how the participants
frequently adopt the strategy of negatively evaluating non-present
third persons to redress the balance. The repair of such
interactional trouble motivates topic change and major topic
movement. The author uses transcripts of actual recorded
conversations thus providing extensive support for her observations
and analysis. Christine Cheepen is currently a Research Fellow in
Articial Intelligence at the Hatfield Polytechnic, U.K. Her abiding
interest is in linguistics, - in particular the study of natural
conversation, and she has recently been involved in research
connected with various computational projects. She has combined
these two areas of interest, and is presently working primarily on
aspects of dialogue in the human/machine interface.
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