Cooperative & Competitive conversations

Question 1

Cooperativeness

Answer 1

refers to a particular type of conversation, where speakers work together to produce shared meanings

Question 2

Competitiveness

Answer 2

used to describe the adversarial style where speakers vie for turns and where participants are more likely to contradict each other than to built on each others’ contributions

Question 3

Examples of cooperativeness

Answer 3

build on each other’s comments, interject questions, hedges, tag questions etc

Question 4

Cameron & Coates (1988)

Answer 4

recorded the language of a group of women friends and analysed it for cooperative behaviour and found all of the above.