Help?!

[Cilla Häggkvist]

Hi everybody,

I would like some help finding relevant bibliography for a phenomenon I found in the conversations I am studying for my PhD thesis on intercultural communication. What I have found is something  that is constructed like this:

Person A (from Spain): What places have you visited here in Spain?

Person B (from Sweden): El Escorial

Person C (from Sweden): and we went to Toledo

Person B: and mm Zaragoza 

Or:

Person A (from Sweden): Do you know any Swedish football-players?

Person B (from Spain) well Martin Dahlin

Person C (from Sweden): and what's his name Brolin

Person B: yeah and Andersson

Some of these "lists" (Jan Anward suggested I should call them Intersubjectivity Establishing Open-ended Lists), are more elaborated and finally become "real" topics while others remain in list format. They are often initiated by a question. I am studying this from the point of view of politeness as well as from a common-ground perspective and my question to you is if there is anything written about this? I would really appreciate whatever help I can get!

Cilla Häggkvist

cilla at isp.su.se