虽然语言学研究的对象是语言 ,但是十分令人吃惊的是语言学家直到最近才开始对交谈给予关注。这一断言似乎有点使人感到惊奇 ,因为人们会指出语音学和结构语言学两个例子 :语音学讨论口语如何形成语言学理论的中心部分 ;结构语言学强调言语先于其它语言形式。然而 ,对交谈的研 Although the subject of linguistics is linguistic, it is quite surprising that linguists have only recently begun to pay attention to conversations. This assertion may seem somewhat surprising as one would point to two examples of phonetics and structural linguistics: phonetics discussing how colloquialisms form the central part of linguistic theory; and structural linguistics emphasizing that speech precedes other forms of language. However, research on the conversation