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| Title: |
Indirectness in discourse: Ethnicity as conversational style |
| Author: |
Tannen, Deborah |
| Appeared in: |
Discourse processes |
| Paging: | Volume 4 (1981) nr. 3 pages 221-238 |
| Year: |
1981-07 |
| Contents: |
This paper focuses on indirectness in discourse as a feature of conversational style. Reported research emphasizes social differences in expectations of indirectness in the context of conversation between married partners. To discover patterns of interpretation, findings are drawn from (1) interviews with Greeks and Americans about their interactional experience and (2) a pilot study consisting of a questionnaire based on a conversation reported in (1) and including (a) paraphrase choices (b) short answers and (c) open-ended interview/discussions with respondents. Results suggest that Greeks are more likely to expect indirectness in the context presented, and that Greek-Americans who may not speak Greek have retained the influence of Greek communicative strategies. Discussion of differences in interpretive strategies focuses on 1) the discourse function of questions and 2) the significance of ellipsis, yielding a brevity effect, associated for Greeks with an enthusiasm constraint. Theoretical implications include an alternative to Bernstein's hypothesis about restricted and elaborated codes, such that restriction and elaboration are not monolithic. Rather, groups differ with respect to which contexts, channels, and cues require elaboration. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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