Distinctive Characteristics of Party Conversations - Jeanne Watson Eisenstadt -- CONVENTIONS THAT SHAPE SOCIABLE INTERACTION

III. DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF PARTY CONVERSATION

A review of the many qualitative party characteristics examined in our study indicates two that should be given special attention. Each is a way of behaving found fairly uniformly across a wide range of parties. Each is less frequent in non-party interaction. Consequently, each may be considered to be specifically characteristic of parties. One involves the treatment of self, the other, the treatment of the conversational topic, or resource.

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