Overall Organisation. Openings and Closings in Moroccan Arabic

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2014 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, , language: English, abstract: An overall structural organisation characterizes conversation as an activity constituted by sub-parts, such as the 'beginning section' (where both greeting and non-topical talk), the 'topical section' and the 'closing section', together with strategies for moving from one to the next (Ferrara (1980: 327-328)); that is already a structural claim. Accordingly, a descri...