Ford1994
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Ford1994 |
| Author(s) | Cecilia E. Ford |
| Title | Dialogic aspects of talk and writing: Because on the interactional-edited continuum |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Because, Writing |
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| Year | 1994 |
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| Journal | Text & Talk |
| Volume | 14 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | 531–554 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1515/text.1.1994.14.4.531 |
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Abstract
In the light of claims that language is fundamentally dialogic, this study focuses on the English conjunction because and its contexts of use from spontaneous conversation to more planned, edited genres. In previous studies, because has been found to emerge from speaker-recipient negotiation. The present study seeks to understand how similar interactional work may be present, in modifiedform, in more planned texts. On the spontaneous interactional side, discourse types sampled include casual conversation, call-in talk shows, and interviews. Representing more planned, edited language use are samples from newspapers and news magazines, self-help books, how-to books, novels, and academic books and journals. In texts toward the edited end of the continuum because is found to regularly emerge after rhetorical relations of contrast and negation, or more generally, after propositions that are distinct from potentially shared expectations. It is suggested that, while in the conversational corpus there is often an Immediate and clearly identifiable negotiation between interlocutors leading to elaborations introduced by because in the more monologic and edited texts the use of because emerges in specific, identifiable rhetorical contexts, possibly as a result of an internal dialogue with projected recipient(s).
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