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Analysis of a Simple Administrative Phone Call

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Situation: A secretary in an academic department makes a phone call to pass on some information.

Participants: Secretary and person called.

Acknowledgment: This text appears in Herb Clark's book Using Language. He quotes it from a printed corpus by Quirk and Svartik.

Features: Even though the dialogue is very short, it illustrates rejection of a bid of a dialogue macrogame.

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