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Pragmaticizing Understanding: Studies for Jef VerschuerenEdited by Michael Meeuwis and Jan-Ola Östman
[Not in series 170] 2012
► pp. 101–112
Competent speakers have effortless mastery over talk; traditional theories about what happens when that goes wrong tend to locate the problem in the speaker. Conversation Analysis offers a radical alternative, stressing the role of the speaker’s interlocutors and the structures of conversation that all parties can use.