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

By: Deborah Tannen

RRP: $46.95

Our Price: $46.95

You Save: (%)

Usually ships in 24 hours

Product Description

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