Université de Fribourg

Le rire cordial dans les demandes téléphoniques par de jeunes infirmières à l’hôpital = Cordial laughter in young nurses’ telephone requests at the hospital

González Martínez, Esther ; Petitjean, Cécile

In: Activités, 2016, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 2-19

This article is based on the conversation analysis of a corpus of telephone calls between young nursing graduates in their first year of work at a hospital and other members of the hospital staff. The main activity of these calls is a request that the nurse makes of her interlocutor. During these calls, the nurse often produces laughter particles – before, during and after a turn-at-talk...