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In 1996 a spokesperson for British Telecom (BT), the UK's largest phone company, launched a campaign to improve the nation's communication skills, explaining that 'since is in many ways a series of conversations it makes sense to be as good as we possibly can at something we tend to take for granted' (quoted in the Guardian, 30 December 1996).
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spoken discourse data, spoken language data, turn transition relevance place, interactional sociolinguists, institutional talk, interactional sociolinguistics, simultaneous speech, eye dialect, nonstandard spelling, spoken interaction, research encounter, contextualization cues, transcription conventions, critical discourse analysis, positive politeness, discourse analysts, rising intonation, adjacency pair, current speaker, speech event, discourse markers, falling intonation, social voices
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House of Commons, Arthur Scargill, Catriona Carson, Jennifer Coates, Marko Kukkonen, Tony Blair, British English, Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, Stuart May, Jenny Thomas, Princess Diana, Tok Pisin, African American, Glasgow Media Group, Harvey Sacks, Holy Spirit, Norman Fairclough, Observer's Paradox, Michel Foucault, Sandra Harris, Sylvia Shaw, Teun van Dijk, Zellig Harris, Asian English
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