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Sun2002
BibType ARTICLE
Key Sun2002
Author(s) Hao Sun
Title Display and Reaffirmation of Affect Bond and Relationship: Invited Guessing in Chinese

Telephone Conversations

Editor(s)
Tag(s) EMCA, Discourse analysis, Chinese, culture, functions of language, telephone conversation, affect, Opening sequences
Publisher
Year 2002
Language
City
Month
Journal Language in Society
Volume 31
Number 1
Pages 85-112
URL Link
DOI 10.1017.S0047404501010041
ISBN
Organization
Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series
Howpublished
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Abstract

This article examines an interactive strategy of invited guessing in Chi-

nese telephone conversations. Oriented toward affect bonding between the
participants, invited guessing both indexes and strengthens their relation-
ship. Caller identification, typically perceived as a procedural component
in telephone conversation, is shown to be constructed as an interactive
process serving social functions as well as a discourse-structural function.
Its primary purpose is to signify and enhance rapport-building. The ob-
served interactions present patterns of variation from the proposed univer-
sal sequence of telephone conversation openings, suggesting that this
discourse structure can respond to variables such as the purpose of the
interaction and the relationship between participants in the Chinese con-
text. Finally, invited guessing indicates that relationship constitutes an im-
portant cultural variable shaping discourse and interaction in Chinese
society.

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