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Andrew Watson

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Graham Brown

EAN: 9780071622875

When Conversation Lapses Computer integrated manufacturing communities to avoid the cuisineSilence takes on meaning based on the contexts of its occurrence. This is especially true in social interactions: consider the difference between silence after "lemme think," and silence after "will you marry me?" This book examines a particular form of silence, the conversational lapse. These regularly appear in conversations when all interactants pass up the opportunity to speak, and are moments when talk seems to falter or give way to matters