Upravljanje pogovora kot metadiskurzna funkcija

slovenian

2007

volume 52, issue 3/4

management 

Slavistično društvo Slovenije
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

The concept of metadiscourse is used in applied linguistics to characterise the parts of text that do not contribute new information, but help organize the text or build the relationship between the writer and the reader. In this paper I present a new aspect of metadiscourse that manifests itself especiallyin conversation: I refer to it as conversation management. I define three levels of conversation management: managing topic flow, managing turn-taking and managing utterance production. Based on an analysis of authentic conversations, I try to define the types of discourse elements through which the conversation management is realized. The results show that these elements are very diverse, and many of them (e. g., prosody, speech acts, propositional content ...) have several other function in addition to conversation management.

17.11.2011