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Traci S. Curl
Researcher at University of York
Publications - 4
Citations - 748
Traci S. Curl is an academic researcher from University of York. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pragmatics & Phonetics. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications receiving 678 citations.
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Contingency and Action: A Comparison of Two Forms of Requesting
Traci S. Curl,Paul Drew +1 more
TL;DR: This article explored the syntactic forms speakers use when making requests and found that modal verbs are most common in ordinary conversation, whereas I wonder if is most frequent in requests made to the doctor.
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Offers of assistance: Constraints on syntactic design
TL;DR: This conversation analytic study explicates the sequentially-specific syntactic formats of offers made in telephone calls, in which one speaker proposes to satisfy another's want or need, or to assist in resolving a difficulty experienced by another.
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Repetition and the prosody–pragmatics interface
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a detailed phonetic and pragmatic analysis of a particular kind of self-repetition, i.e., the phrases "have another go tomorrow" and "it might do, it might do", which are used to close sequences of talk.
Conversation analysis: Overview and new directions
Paul Drew,Traci S. Curl +1 more
TL;DR: Conversation analysis (CA) is founded on a sociological conceptualization of the basically social nature of language use in human interaction as mentioned in this paper, and it has come to be a truly multi-disciplinary approach.