Antaki2002

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Antaki2002
BibType ARTICLE
Key Antaki2002
Author(s) Charles Antaki
Title “Lovely”: Turn-initial high-grade assessments in telephone closings
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Tag(s) EMCA, telephone closings, assessments
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Year 2002
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Journal Discourse Studies
Volume 4
Number 1
Pages 5–23
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DOI 10.1177/14614456020040010101
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Abstract

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 high-grade assessment might display a claim to `ownership' of the closedown sequence.

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