He is a very interesting man and a brilliant conversationalist.
He was urbane in manner and a pleasant conversationalist.
Listen to the best conversationalists and how they express themselves.
Louise found the young man a charming conversationalist.
They are fine looking, good conversationalists and elegant dancers.
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Furthermore, the conversationalists communicate through subtle indications or hints, where the message itself is buried between the lines without being explicitly expressed.
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In each case, the recording was made by one of the conversationalists.
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Becoming aconversationalistdespite (or because of) having an older sibling.
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The orderliness of these phenomena suggested their methodic use by conversationalists.
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In the realm of the girl group song, oneconversationalistmight tread acoustically on the toes of another without fear of reprisal.
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As in face-toface sign conversation, conversationalists can engage in producing "continuers," which are a conventional way to show interest and understanding in a conversation.
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She concludes that the way in which the category ' old ' is used depends upon the occasion, the setting and the conversationalists' various purposes.
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Hence, there is actually intrinsic contextual misalignment between conversationalists that can persist across turns.
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In this segment, the conversationalists are talking about their outfits.
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Given the multiple meanings associated with this adverbial, the sequential organization and context of talk turn out to have critical significance as resources for conversationalists to exclude the unlikely options.
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In other words, the context is responsible for these interpretational asymmetries or, rather, they are a consequence of the fact that distinct contexts are associated with the conversationalists.
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As a result, abstract descriptions of a characteristic structure cannot by themselves illuminate how prosody is used by conversationalists; instead the task requires a close analysis of real interactional data.
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In cases to be discussed below, conversationalists alter their production of signs in the new context, and not just the relationship among their bodies, the camera, and the computer environment.
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The fact that conversationalists do not adhere very closely to this schema is explained with reference to the "interactive qualities," which seem to comprise linguistic and extralinguistic contextual factors.
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He was himself gifted with an admirable prose style, and was an excellent speaker and a brilliantconversationalist.
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