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Same setting, different norms: Phone call beginnings in France and the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Daniele Godard
Daniele Godard
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The University of Pennsylvania
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Abstract

French native speakers' reactions to phone calls in the United States are an indication of a difference in the norms of interaction between the two countries. This difference, in turn, is understood when one realizes that the phone call, constituting a speech event, is open to different cultural interpretations, in spite of a similarity in the physical conditions of the interaction between the caller and the answerer. (Sequencing conventional opening; cultural variability; telephone calls; France and United States.)

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Articles
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Language in Society , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , June 1977 , pp. 209 - 219
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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