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Arguing against absent arguables: organizing audience participation in political discourse

University of Warwick

Based on the analysis of interaction during a public meeting, this article considers how people argue in sequential environments where direct interaction is precluded. The meeting in question was organized so the turns of audience speakers and local authority representatives were produced during different periods; initial actions and their oppositions, counters, etc., could be separated by anything up to 25 minutes. The article describes how speakers adapt their language practices to construct arguing turns and series of action-opposition pairs in social settings thus organized.

Key Words: arguments • conversation analysis • public meetings

Discourse Studies, Vol. 8, No. 5, 603-625 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1461445606064832


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