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The Analysis of Pragmatic Strategies of Turn Claiming in Two Conversational Styles

Wanting Chen

Abstract


George Yule, a linguist, classifi ed conversational styles as high involvement style and high considerateness style. Pragmatic strategies mean there are the various ways in which language users achieve their communicative goals. The turn-claiming is one of pragmatic strategies, which refers to the opportunities to be the speaker or the lines the speaker says. In this paper, we will explore turn-claiming pragmatic strategies of in two conversational styles.

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Conversational styles; High involvement style; High considerateness style; Pragmatic strategies; Turn-claiming

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v7i15.8817

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