Bolden2017
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | Bolden2017 |
Author(s) | Galina B. Bolden |
Title | Opening up closings in Russian |
Editor(s) | Geoffrey Raymond, Gene H. Lerner, John Heritage |
Tag(s) | EMCA, Russian, conversation closings, overall structural organization, prosody, conversation analysis |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Year | 2017 |
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City | Amsterdam / Philadelphia |
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Pages | 231–272 |
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DOI | 10.1075/pbns.273.13bol |
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Book title | Enabling Human Conduct: Studies of talk-in-interaction in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff |
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Abstract
Taking its inspiration in “Opening Up Closings” by Schegloff and Sacks (1973), the chapter investigates how the activity of closing a conversation is initiated in Russian telephone conversations. Two distinct practices for initiating closings – tacit and explicit closings initiations – are examined, in terms of their lexical and prosodic composition and their position. Conversation closings may be launched tacitly when a closing implicative environment has been established. Prosody plays an important role both in establishing a closing-implicative environment and in accomplishing a move into closings. Closings may also be initiated explicitly (via a request or offer to end the conversation) when a closing-relevant environment has not been established or in order to accomplish additional relationship-reaffirming work.
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