Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends

Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends - Language and Learning for Human Service Professions

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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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780893911881
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Imprint: Praeger
Pub date:
DEWEY: 001.542019
DEWEY edition: 19
Language: English
Number of pages: 188
Weight: 417g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 15mm