20. Conclusion

Chapters in this book

1. I-VI I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. Part I. Scope, theories and methods
5. 1. Introduction 3
6. 2. Purpose and general design of project 29
7. 3. Interactants and recordings 35
8. 4. The application of Interaction Process Analysis (IPA) 53
9. 5. The application of linguistic tentativeness signals 75
10. Part II. Hypotheses and results
11. 6. Delimitation hypotheses 127
12. 7. Particular hypotheses 139
13. Part III. Presentation of results by stratificational category
14. 8. Results shared in by all substrata (TOT) 195
15. 9. The younger generation (YNG) 205
16. 10. The older generation (OLD) 213
17. 11. The managerial workers (ΜΑΝΑ) 221
18. 12. The clerical workers (CLER) 233
19. 13. The manual workers (MANU) 243
20. 14. The younger managerial workers (YMA) 255
21. 15. The older managerial workers (OMA) 259
22. 16. The younger clerical workers (YCL) 265
23. 17. The older clerical workers (OCL) 269
24. 18. The younger manual workers (YMU) 271
25. 19. The older manual workers (OMU) 277
26. 20. Conclusion 283
27. Bibliography 295
28. Author index 313
29. Systematic index of particular hypotheses 317
30. Alphabetical index of particular hypotheses 327
31. General index 339