A Formalism for Describing Rules of Conversation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4474640 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vern Poythre, Vern Poythress, Vern S Poythress (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 1973-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Semiotica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/semi.1973.7.4.285 |
| OpenAlex | W2042722203 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In a conversation among several people repeated shifts in the role of 'speaker' and 'addressee' may occur, partly at random (as when a new topic of conversation is started by any one of the participants, who thus becomes the new speaker), partly according to rule (as when a participant responds to a question or comment directed toward him). 'Interruption' or 'rudeness' can then be regarded as a violation of rule. This paper studies the semiotic relation among (a) the social elements of a concrete conversational exchange, (b) the linguistic rules, tacit or explicit, underlying such conversation, and (c) mathematical formalism describing the rules. The structure of THREE-person conversations has been studied in some detail by Pike (unpublished) from a more mathematical point of view, and by Wise and Lowe (1969) from a more linguistic point of view. I extend Pike's formalism in order to handle rules for η-person conversations, n being an arbitrary positive integer
Conversation · Epistemology · Formalism (music) · Linguistics · Point (geometry) · Semiotics · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 1982 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |