A Pragmatic Study of Telephone Opening Conducts Among Iraqis

Abstract

The organization of telephone conversation received much scholarly attention since Schegloff’s pioneering work in the 1960s and 1970s. The current study aims to: First, Identify the frequency of occurrences of pragmatic elements used in telephone openings. To achieve this goal, the study hypothesized the following: First, It is expected that the pragmatic elements (pause, overlap, back channel, attributable silence, preference organization and speech acts) with affect the sequence formats of different socio-pragmatic sittings. The study adopts the sequence structure model of “Emanuel Schegloff (telephone openings 1968). The current study finds out the following: The most frequently elements used in the openings section are the disruptive elements "overlap" and "adjacency pairs" (ask - answer) which indicating that these elements have an impact on the lengthy or reduced of the telephone openings sequence.