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Publication details [#37650]

Bilmes, Jack. 1988. The concept of preference in conversation analysis. Language in Society 17 (2) : 161–181.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | implicature

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper attempts to define a unitary concept of preference in conversation analysis, to examine its properties, to set it apart from related concepts and to disclose common confusions.