Bilmes1988

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Bilmes1988
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Author(s) Jack Bilmes
Title The concept of preference in conversation analysis
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Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Preference, Methodology
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Year 1988
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Journal Language in Society
Volume 17
Number 2
Pages 161–181
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DOI 10.1017/S0047404500012744
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Abstract

Preference is treated as a single concept in conversation analysis, but it has in fact developed into an assemblage of loosely related concepts. It has also been construed in a variety of mutually incompatible, and sometimes meth-odologically questionable, ways. This is due, at least in part, to a confusion between preference in its everyday usage and preference as a technical notion. This paper attempts to present a clear and unitary concept of preference and investigate the properties of that concept, differentiate related concepts (including conversational implicature), and reveal common confusions.

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