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Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends
Deborah Tannen
Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends
Deborah Tannen
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.
210 pages, 1, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | 1984 |
ISBN13 | 9780893911881 |
Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
Pages | 198 |
Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 15 mm · 417 g |
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