QuasthoffHellerMorek2017

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QuasthoffHellerMorek2017
BibType ARTICLE
Key QuasthoffHellerMorek2017
Author(s) Uta Quasthoff, Vivien Heller, Miriam Morek
Title On the sequential organization and genre-orientation of discourse units in interaction: An analytic framework
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Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation Analysis, discourse analysis, discourse units, explaining, genre, GLOBE, methodology, multi-unit turns, narrating, reasoning
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Year 2017
Language English
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Journal Discourse Studies
Volume 19
Number 1
Pages 84–110
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DOI 10.1177/1461445616683596
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Abstract

The article deals with larger stretches of talk-in-interaction and argues in favor of a descriptive approach, which integrates the structural requirements of global organization, the special type of sequential orderliness within larger units as well as the genre-orientation of these units. Drawing on previous work in conversation analysis, discourse analysis and the sociological genre analysis, the article introduces GLOBE as an analytical tool which functionally links discourse units to conventionalized communicative purposes. GLOBE reconstructs the interactive achievement of genre-oriented discourse units in a three-branch analysis of jobs, devices and forms. The analytical potential of GLOBE is demonstrated in the exemplary genre-contrastive analysis of a narrative, an explanative and an argumentative excerpt. On the basis of the analyses of the three genres, the overarching constitution of genre-oriented global units is then explicated.

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