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Meta‐Talk: Organizational and Evaluative Brackets in Discourse
Author(s) -
Schiffrin Deborah
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1980.tb00021.x
Subject(s) - sociology , citation , ethnography , media studies , anthropology , library science , computer science
Because human languages can be used to talk about virtually anything, individuals conversing with one another have available an infinite number of topics about which they can talk. One topic is talk itself. In addition to conversations that focus predominantly on talk, for example, those in a linguistics class or a psychotherapy session, many conversations allow talk to emerge as a subtopic within ongoing talk about something else. Thus we often find within a conversation about some other topic metalinguistic expressions such as ((THAT’S WHAT I MEANT)), ((I’M TELLING YOU)), and ((I’LL PUT IT THIS WAY)) that focus on an individual’s own talk, as well as expressions such as ((THAT’S