Compliments and Positive Assessments : Sequential Organization in Multi-Party Conversations.

Intro -- Compliments and Positive Assessments -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Research on compliments, positive assessments, and their responses -- 2.1 Compliment or positive assessment? -- 2.1.1 Recognizing the form, or: Spotting a compliment when you hear one -- 2.1.2 Positive assessments -- 2.1.3 Compliments and assessments: Same but different? -- 2.2 How to respond to Positive Remarks -- 2.2.1 Pomerantz (1978, 1984) on second assessments -- 2.2.2 Responses in research -- 2.3 Sequencing the turns -- 2.3.1 From single utterance to conversation -- 2.3.2 Combining the turns in a working model -- Chapter 3. Methodology: The data base -- 3.1 Collecting assessments, compliments, and their responses -- 3.1.1 From field notes to corpus search -- 3.1.2 Speech acts and sequences in corpora -- 3.2 The data base that suits the purpose -- 3.2.1 General information on the SBCSAE -- 3.2.2 Choice of scenes from the SBCSAE -- Chapter 4. The coding of the Positive Remark sequences -- 4.1 Coding Positive Remarks -- 4.1.1 Reference in Positive Remarks -- 4.1.2 From Manes/Wolfson's formulae to a new grammatical descriptive approach -- 4.1.3 Further codings in the Positive Remarks -- 4.2 Sets of Response Strategies -- 4.2.1 The strategies in the SBCSAE data -- 4.2.2 Suggested preference structure in Positive Remark sequences -- 4.3 Turn structures of PosR sequences -- 4.3.1 Challenges of multi-party discourse -- 4.3.2 The structure of following turns in Positive Remark sequences -- 4.4 Additional coding of the Positive Remarks -- 4.4.1 Features of the organizational level -- 4.4.2 Syntactical structure and sentence type -- 4.4.3 The topic level: What do they talk about? -- Chapter 5. General overview of Positive Remark sequences.

5.1 A general overview of all Positive Remarks in the data -- 5.1.1 The distribution of the Positive Remarks -- 5.1.2 Positive Remarks and sentence types -- 5.1.3 Topics in Positive Remarks -- 5.2 The Response Strategies -- 5.2.1 The distribution of the Response Strategies -- 5.2.2 Response Strategies and sentence type -- 5.2.3 Topic and Response Strategies -- 5.3 Interaction and sequencing -- 5.3.1 Response Strategies and their use in the Positive Remark sequences -- 5.3.2 Structure of turns following a Positive Remark -- 5.3.3 Response Strategies used in specific turns in relation to the supercategories -- 5.4 Summary of general findings -- Chapter 6. Positive Remark sequences: Focus on three supercategories -- 6.1 The _adj_ category -- 6.1.1 _adj_ subcategories -- 6.1.2 _adj_ interaction and turn organization -- 6.1.3 Sequences of Positive Remarks and Response Strategies in 'turn by other' sequences in _adj_ -- 6.2 The _noun_ category -- 6.2.1 _noun_ subcategories -- 6.2.2 _noun_ interaction and turn organization -- 6.2.3 Sequences of Positive Remarks and Response Strategies in 'turn by other' sequences in _noun_ -- 6.3 The _verb_eval category -- 6.3.1 _verb_eval subcategories -- 6.3.2 _verb_eval interaction and turn organization -- 6.3.3 Sequences of Positive Remarks and Response Strategies in 'turn by other' sequences in _verb_eval -- 6.4 Summary and statistical testing of the sequences -- Chapter 7. Discussion -- 7.1 Discussion of the Positive Remarks -- 7.1.1 Utterance and sentence types -- 7.1.2 Topic in Positive Remark sequences -- 7.1.3 Form and function -- 7.1.4 The subcategories of the Positive Remarks: A general comparison -- 7.2 Sequences and responses -- 7.3 Discussion of preferred Response Strategies -- 7.3.1 Opting out -- 7.3.2 Explaining -- 7.3.3 Agreement -- Chapter 8. Conclusion and outlook -- References -- Websites.

Appendix A. Abbreviations -- Appendix B. Additional tables and text description -- Appendix C. Additional figures -- Index.

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