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On “Trouble‐Premonitory” Response to Inquiry

Gail Jefferson
- 01 Jul 1980 - 
- Vol. 50, pp 153-185
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This article is published in Sociological Inquiry.The article was published on 1980-07-01. It has received 185 citations till now.

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Politeness : Some Universals in Language Usage

TL;DR: Gumperz as discussed by the authors discusses politeness strategies in language and their implications for language studies, including sociological implications and implications for social sciences. But he does not discuss the relationship between politeness and language.
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Toward a mechanistic psychology of dialogue

TL;DR: A mechanistic account of dialogue, the interactive alignment account, is proposed and used to derive a number of predictions about basic language processes, and the need for a grammatical framework that is designed to deal with language in dialogue rather than monologue is considered.
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Sequence Organization in Interaction: A Primer in Conversation Analysis

TL;DR: In this article, Schegloff introduced the findings and theories of conversation analysis and provided a complete and authoritative 'primer' in the subject. The topic of this first volume is "sequence organization" -the ways in which turns-at-talk are ordered and combined to make actions take place in conversation, such as requests, offers, complaints, and announcements.
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Repair After Next Turn: The Last Structurally Provided Defense of Intersubjectivity in Conversation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors set the concern with intersubjectivity in theoretical context, sketches the organization by which it is grounded and defended in ordinary interaction, describes the practices by which trouble in understanding is dealt with, and illustrates what happens when this organization fails to function.
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Confirming Allusions: Toward an Empirical Account of Action

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a previously undescribed action that occurs in talk-in-interaction, i.e., agreeing with another by repeating what they have said is shown to constitute the action of confirming an allusion-that is, confirming both its content and its prior inexplicit conveyance.