The Break of Conversation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8974994 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zali Gurevitch (Hadassah Academic College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-40 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-5914.00061 |
| OpenAlex | W2128488903 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The present essay explores conversation as a phenomenon of mutual turning (con‐versation). The act of turning reveals a basic tension between two approaches – that which puts the unmediated turn as the basis of dialogue (as in Buber’s I and Thou), and the present approach that regards speech and the creative text as part and parcel of the conversational turn. The controversy is brought to the point of “break” which is both theoretical and refering to actual gaps of silence that occur at the midst of conversation. Three such gaps or critical silences are explored – silence about, silence between and silence within. From these a general notion of break is discussed in a negative sense of a conversational crisis and in a positive sense of a creative breakthrough
Aesthetics · Conversation · Epistemology · Linguistics · Phenomenon · Silence · Sociology · Thou · Turning point · Communication · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2011 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |