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- Title
The Complexity Structures of Conversational Interaction among Participants.
- Authors
Huaizhou Mao; Rong Luo
- Abstract
This paper aims to explore the complexity structures of conversational interaction among participants based on the theory of cooperative principles, turn-taking and topic shifts theoretically to justify the potential possibility of handling the complexity of structures of conversational interaction among participants. Grice's conversational maxims determines the possibility of cooperative principles in conversational interaction, the unpredictability of the turn-taking and the uncertainty of the topic shifts in negotiating topics make the conversational process complex. If speakers probe to develop the awareness of the complexity of structures of conversational interaction among participants in conversational situation, the possibility and unpredictability in spontaneous speech can be realized. However, the paper didn't touch the process of the role analysis, the process of turn-taking analysis, the process of conversational maxims analysis and the topic-shifts in actual conversations based on the transcription.
- Subjects
CONVERSATION; COOPERATION; SOCIAL interaction; SPOKESPERSONS; MAXIMS; SOCIAL exchange
- Publication
Journal of Language Teaching & Research, 2012, Vol 3, Issue 5, p1038
- ISSN
1798-4769
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4304/jltr.3.5.1038-1045