Conversational history revisited

Authors

  • Sanda Golopenția Brown University Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.36554

Keywords:

pragmatics, conversational history, conversation sample, conversational episode, initial/median/final episode, internal median episode

Abstract

A conversational history is the set of conversations that took place between at least two persons over a certain amount of time. Conversational histories can be open or closed. They represent the essential way in which we build our social relations and consist of initial, median and final conversational episodes, which can be explicit or internal, real or fictional. Each of the conversations they contain can be partially explained in terms of the conversational episodes preceding it and viewed as paving the way for future conversational developments. The internal median conversational episodes, which are only made visible to us in literature and, at times, in psychological research, correspond to the mental work by means of which each of the partners of a conversational history reexamines and connects previous conversations or plans for the next one.

Author Biography

  • Sanda Golopenția, Brown University
    Born in Romania, Sanda Golopenția is now based in the United States and has taught in the Department of French Studies at Brown University, United States, since 1981. She is currently Professor Emerita at Brown. Her publications on the subjects of linguistics, literary pragmatics and cultural semiotics include books, such as: (1972) The Transformational Syntax of Romanian (with E. Vasiliu; Bucharest: Editura Academiei - The Hague, Paris: Mouton); (1978) Current Trends in Romanian Linguistics (with A. Rosetti; Bucharest: Editura Academiei); (1988) Les voies de la pragmatiqu (Stanford French and Italian Studies; Saratoga, CA: Anma Libri); (1994) Voir les didascalies (with M. Martinez; Paris: Université de Toulouse Le Mirail et Éditions Ophrys); (1996) Les propos spectacle: Études de pragmatique théâtrale (New York - Washington, DC - Baltimore: Peter Lang); (2001) Intermemoria - Studii de pragmatică șiantropologie(Intermemory - Studies in Pragmatics and Anthropology; Cluj: Dacia); (2009) Româna globală (Global Romanian; Bucharest: Fundația Culturală Secolul 21); (2010) Hacia una nuev definición de las didascalías (Madrid: Ñaque Editora); (2016)Structuri, sisteme, transformări. Studii de lingvistică și poetică (Structures, Systems and Transformations; Studies in Linguistics and Poetics; Bucharest: Editura Academiei Române), as well as over 200 studies and essays that have been published in the United States, France, Romania, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, South Africa and Mexico.

Downloads

Published

2018-11-06

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2018): Special Issue: Conversational History

Section

Articles

License

© Equinox Publishing Ltd.

For information regarding our Open Access policy, click here.

How to Cite

Golopenția, S. (2018). Conversational history revisited. Sociolinguistic Studies, 12(1), 9-53. https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.36554