Publications

Publication details [#12085]

Kowal, Sabine and Daniel C. O'Connell. 1997. Theoretical ideals and their violation: Princess Diana and Martin Bashir in the BBC interview. Pragmatics 7 (3) : 309–323.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | ideal language | maxim of conversation | turn-taking

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

ISBN

1018-2101

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

Three models of idealized communication (the 'ideal delivery' model, the 'simplest systematics' model and the maxim of Quantity) are reviewed. All three fail to account for performance quality.