Speech Management on the Non-w Ritten Life of Speech

The development of pragmatics as an area of concern within linguistics has carried with it a growing interest in what really happens when we communicate linguistically. Especially, the nature of interaction in spoken language has come under increased scrutiny. In this study, we want to examine a range of spoken language phenomena which we believe have their locus in the relation between the individual speaker and the ongoing spoken interaction. More precisely, we want to concentrate on the externally noticeable processes whereby the speaker manages his/her linguistic contributions to the interaction and to the interactively focussed informational content.