Conversation is very often spontaneous, natural and informal. But even at its most casual it is governed by rules and principles of language and behaviour. This book lays bare the structure of conversation, describing what happens when people talk to each other and explaining wh…
Conversation is very often spontaneous, natural and informal. But even at its most casual it is governed by rules and principles of language and behaviour. This book lays bare the structure of conversation, describing what happens when people talk to each other and explaining wh…
How do people with brain damage communicate? How does the partial or total loss of the ability to speak and use language fluently manifest itself in actual conversation? How are people with brain damage able to expand their cognitive ability through interaction with others - and…
Presenting a linguistic approach to the analysis of conversational style, this book focuses on six speakers during a dinnerparty & shows how styles work in a positive manner when they are similar to one another & in a negative way when they are different.
"This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style - first published in 1984 - presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of work in discourse analysis, including t…
Preface to the 2005 Edition. 1. Introduction. 2. Conversational Style: Theoretical Background. 3. The Participants in Thanksgiving Dinner. 4. Linguistic Devices in Conversational Style. 5. Narrative Strategies. 6. Irony and Joking. 7. Summary of Style Features. 8. The Study of C…
To converse is, in its most fundamental sense, to engage with society. The potency of conversation as an early modern social networking tool is complicated, however, both by its gendered status in the period and by its conflation of verbal and physical interaction. Conversation …
Talk and social organisation
by Button, Graham, Lee, John R. E
fromIntercommunication (Clevedon, England)