Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends
This book provides a basic approach to the linguistic analysis of conversation, building toward a theory of the aesthetics of conversation by analyzing spontaneous talk among friends. It sheds light on such issues as pacing, turn-taking, storytelling, and humor, showing the effects on interaction when participants' conversational styles differ. Its readability makes it suitable for use as a text in discourse analysis at all levels.
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Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends
This book provides a basic approach to the linguistic analysis of conversation, building toward a theory of the aesthetics of conversation by analyzing spontaneous talk among friends. It sheds light on such issues as pacing, turn-taking, storytelling, and humor, showing the effects on interaction when participants' conversational styles differ. Its readability makes it suitable for use as a text in discourse analysis at all levels.
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Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends

Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends

by Bloomsbury Academic
Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends

Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends

by Bloomsbury Academic

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This book provides a basic approach to the linguistic analysis of conversation, building toward a theory of the aesthetics of conversation by analyzing spontaneous talk among friends. It sheds light on such issues as pacing, turn-taking, storytelling, and humor, showing the effects on interaction when participants' conversational styles differ. Its readability makes it suitable for use as a text in discourse analysis at all levels.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780893912000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 01/01/1984
Series: Language and Learning for Human Service Professions Series
Edition description: Older Edition
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.48(d)

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