Maxims for Studying Conversations

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ID4475010
AutoresBrian Butterworth (0000-0001-8201-3347, autor correspondente)
Ano1978
Volume24
Fascículo3-4
Data de publicação1978-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSemiotica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/semi.1978.24.3-4.317
OpenAlexW2081922718
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas9

This paper is divided into three parts. The first outlines problems which the student of conversations faces; of these, some are specific t o conversational material, others general to many kinds of scientific endeavour. The second part attempts to provide a philosophical framework within which these methodological problems can be considered. The third analyses a few existing studies of conversation, including some of my own, from a methodological viewpoint t o see what lessons can be drawn from them. In the course of these analyses, I will formulate methodological prescriptions as maxims that can be considered as suggestions as to how to do better work on conversational material. I would like to be able to say that the maxims I shall be propounding are those which have guided my own research: it would, however, be more honest to say that they are reconstructions from (the better portions of) my actual practice

Conversation · Epistemology · Linguistics · Sociology · Communication · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology