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The Australian Dictionary of Invisible Culture for Teachers


Conversational Rules

At the end of a conversation

ending a conversation

we must have coffee some time

At the start of a conversation

social harmony

beginning a conversation

saying ‘how are you?’

responding to ‘how are you?’

when to respond more to ‘how are you’

During a conversation

body language in conversations

when to change the topic of conversation

being considerate of others (in conversation topics)

being literal

faithfully representing facts (what happened)

faithfully representing facts (how it happened)

General conversational expectations

discourse interaction in English

having restraint in discourse

projecting presumed solidarity in interaction

projecting presumed social similarity and social equality in interaction

Terms of address

addressing teachers and bosses

addressing people whom one does not know well by first name

first name address

service encounters

Turn taking and interrupting

keeping a conversation going

joining in a conversation with other people

turn taking

overlapping speech

co-operative interruption in English

intrusive interruption in English









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