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Compliments and Positive Assessments: Sequential organization in multi-party conversations
Susanne Strubel-Burgdorf
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 289] 2018
► pp. 55–88

Chapter 4
The coding of the Positive Remark sequences

Article outline
  • 4.1Coding Positive Remarks
    • 4.1.1Reference in Positive Remarks
    • 4.1.2From Manes/Wolfson’s formulae to a new grammatical descriptive approach
      • 4.1.2.1Rearranging the attributive adjective patterns
      • 4.1.2.2Rearranging the predicative adjective patterns
      • 4.1.2.3From formula to supercategory
    • 4.1.3Further codings in the Positive Remarks
      • 4.1.3.1Intensifiers and downgraders
      • 4.1.3.2Quotes and irony
  • 4.2Sets of Response Strategies
    • 4.2.1The strategies in the SBCSAE data
    • 4.2.2Suggested preference structure in Positive Remark sequences
  • 4.3Turn structures of PosR sequences
    • 4.3.1Challenges of multi-party discourse
    • 4.3.2The structure of following turns in Positive Remark sequences
  • 4.4Additional coding of the Positive Remarks
    • 4.4.1Features of the organizational level
      • 4.4.1.1Overlaps and parallel conversations
      • 4.4.1.2Interjections and listener responses
    • 4.4.2Syntactical structure and sentence type
    • 4.4.3The topic level: What do they talk about?
  • Notes