Antaki2002
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| 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 |
| URL | Link |
| 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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