The Topic Transition Sequence and the Management of Topic Change in Mundane Arabic Conversation

This study investigates topic change in mundane Arabic conversation.. Following a conversation analytic approach, we examine data collected from naturally occurring talk in Arabic mundane conversation recorded from telephone calls to look at how speakers end talk on one topic and initiate another. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Helani, Fadi
Published: University of Essex 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.485301