An 'interactive' approach to interpreting overlapping dialogue in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls (Act 1)

Language and Literature

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 74-89

  Ivanchenko, Andriy ^a  

^a CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caryl; Churchill; Conversation analysis; Interruption; Overlapping in dialogue; Top Girls

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249133253     PISSN: 09639470     EISSN: 14617293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963947007072846     Document Type: Article

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