Business and Service Telephone Conversations

Cecilia Varcasia is a Research Fellow at the Language Study Unit of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. Her research focuses on multilingual communication, discourse and conversation analysis, cross-cultural pragmatics, corpus linguistics and language testing. She has edited Becoming Multilingual (2011), and co-edited Corpora, Discourse & Style (2009).

List of Tables and Figures Glossary Transcription Conventions System Introduction 1. Theoretical Framework 2. Data and Methodology 3. Simple Response Format to the Request 4. Response Plus Extension 5. Insertion Sequence Followed by the Response 6. The Caller Leads the Conversation 7. The Different Response Formats at One Glance 8. Service Encounters and Call Centre Training Implications 9. Conclusions and Implications References Appendix