31.560, Books: When Conversation Lapses: Hoey

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Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 16:41:36
From:  Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: When Conversation Lapses: Hoey

 


Title: When Conversation Lapses 
Subtitle: The Public Accountability of Silent Copresence 
Series Title: Foundations of Human Interaction  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/when-conversation-lapses-9780190947651?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Elliott M Hoey

Hardback: ISBN:  9780190947651 Pages: 240 Price: U.S. $ 85.00


Abstract:

Silence takes on meaning based on the contexts of its occurrence. This is
especially true in social interactions: consider the difference between
silence after "lemme think," and silence after "will you marry me?"

This book examines a particular form of silence, the conversational lapse.
These regularly appear in conversations when all interactants pass up the
opportunity to speak, and are moments when talk seems to falter or give way to
matters extraneous to the conversation. What are these silences for the
participants who, by virtue of not speaking, allowed them to develop? Elliott
M. Hoey here offers the first in-depth analysis of lapses in conversation.
Using methods from Conversation Analysis, the author explores hundreds of
lapses in naturally occurring social occasions with each chapter focusing on a
different aspect of how participants produce and locate order in lapses.
Particular emphasis is given to how lapses emerge, what people do during the
silence, and how they restart conversation afterwards. This research uncovers
participants' methods for organizing lapses in their everyday affairs such
that those silences are rendered as understandable periods of non-talk. By
articulating participants' understandings of when and where talk is relevant,
necessary, or appropriate, the research brings into focus the borderlines
between talk-in-interaction and other realms of social life. This book shows
lapses to be a particular and fascinating kind of silence with unique
relevancies for the social situations of which they are a part.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=141153




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