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Conversation Openings

Conversation Openings is a pragmatic construct in cross-cultural communication that refers to the conventionalized verbal and nonverbal strategies used to initiate social interaction, distinguished by their cultural specificity in managing rapport, politeness, and turn-taking at the beginning of discourse exchanges.

49

Publications

9.1K

Citations

75

Authors

44

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

7

Variants

Conversational Openings

Parents

Publications

49

1–5 of 49

Authors

75

  1. AL
    Anna Lindström

    Uppsala University, Sweden

    2 publications · 120 citations

    2

    h-index

  2. RH
    Robert Hopper

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    2 publications · 69 citations

    2

    h-index

  3. JH
    John Heritage

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    2 publications · 610 citations

    2

    h-index

  4. HB
    Hugo Bowles

    University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

    2 publications · 62 citations

    2

    h-index

  5. EA
    Emanuel A. Schegloff

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    2 publications · 6.7K citations

    2

    h-index

1–5 of 75

Institutions

44

  1. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    768 citations

  2. Tampere University

    Tampere, Finland

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    203 citations

  3. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    2.4K citations

  4. University of Colorado System

    Boulder, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    22 citations

  5. University of Copenhagen

    Copenhagen, Denmark

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    31 citations

  6. University of Iowa

    Iowa City, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    64 citations

  7. NTT (Japan)

    Tokyo, Japan

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    42 citations

  8. State and University Library

    Aarhus, Denmark

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Pragmatics

    5 publications · 335 citations

    5

    h-index

  2. Language in Society

    4 publications · 726 citations

    4

    h-index

  3. Research on Language and Social Interaction

    3 publications · 144 citations

    3

    h-index

  4. Discourse Studies

    2 publications · 102 citations

    2

    h-index

  5. Journal of Business Communication

    JBC · 2 publications · 94 citations

    2

    h-index

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