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Conversational Routines in English - Convention and Creativity (Hardcover)
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Conversational Routines in English - Convention and Creativity (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Language and Linguistics
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It is surprising how much of everyday conversation consists of
repetitive expressions such as 'thank you', 'sorry', would you
mind?' and their many variants. However commonplace they may be,
they do have important functions in communication. This thorough
study draws upon original data from the London-Lund Corpus of
Spoken English to provide a discoursal and pragmatic account of the
more common expressions found in conversational routines, such as
apologising, thanking, requesting and offering. The routines
studied in this book range from conventionalized or idiomatized
phrases to those which can be generated by grammar. Examples have
been taken from face-to-face conversations, radio discussions and
telephone conversations, and transcription has been based upon the
prosodic system of Crystal (1989). An extensive introduction
provides the theory and methodology for the book and discusses the
criteria for fixedness, grammatical analysis, and pragmatic
functions of conversational routines which are later applied to the
phrases. Following chapters deal specifically with phrases for
thanking, apologising, indirect requests, and discourse-organising
markers for conversational routines, on the basis of empirical
investigation of the data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken
English.
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