Download or read book "Well" in Dialogue Games written by Lauri Carlson and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dialogue game approach to the discourse analysis of the English interjection well aims at the formulation of rules which would be informative (marking some contexts of use as more natural than others), systematic (applicable in a mechanical or at least in a non-ad hoc way), and adequate (showing putative competitors to be either false to fact, too narrow or too wide, or demonstrably equivalent).