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‘The conduct of a conversation is governed by a set of unspoken rules and conventions,’ Discuss.
Adjacency pairs are a feature of conversation conduct. ... Adjacency pairs help to structure a conversation and a typical conversation will have large number of them. The progress of a conversation is likely to be disrupted if the pattern of an adjacency pair is violated. ...
The topic of a conversation also helps to give it a coherence and structure. ... In informal interaction, however conversation will often drift from topic to topic. ... If a conversation returns to an earlier discussed topic it is known as a topic loop.
A repair is another feature of conversation. It resolves a problem that has arisen in a conversation. ...
Another convention of conversation is that those being addressed give feedback to the speaker to show that they are listening. ...
Just as there are standard ways of opening conversation, so there are conventional closing sequences, which prevent a conversation ending abruptly or unexpectedly.
Approximate Word count = 737
Approximate Pages = 2.9
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