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Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse
Deborah Tannen
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Description for Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse
Paperback. This book, first published in 2007, provides a clear framework for understanding how ordinary conversation creates meaning and establishes relationships. Series Editor(s): Drew, Paul; Goodwin, Marjorie Harness; Gumperz, John J.; Schiffrin, Deborah. Series: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 406.
Written in readable, vivid, non-technical prose, this book, first published in 2007, presents the highly respected scholarly research that forms the foundation for Deborah Tannen's best-selling books about the role of language in human relationships. It provides a clear framework for understanding how ordinary conversation works to create meaning and establish relationships. A significant theoretical and methodological contribution to both linguistic and literary analysis, it uses transcripts of tape-recorded conversation to demonstrate that everyday conversation is made of features that are associated with literary discourse: repetition, dialogue, and details that create imagery. This second edition features a new introduction in ... Read more
Written in readable, vivid, non-technical prose, this book, first published in 2007, presents the highly respected scholarly research that forms the foundation for Deborah Tannen's best-selling books about the role of language in human relationships. It provides a clear framework for understanding how ordinary conversation works to create meaning and establish relationships. A significant theoretical and methodological contribution to both linguistic and literary analysis, it uses transcripts of tape-recorded conversation to demonstrate that everyday conversation is made of features that are associated with literary discourse: repetition, dialogue, and details that create imagery. This second edition features a new introduction in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521868907
SKU
V9780521868907
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About Deborah Tannen
Deborah Tannen is University Professor and Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She has published twenty books and over 100 articles on such topics as family discourse, spoken and written language, cross-cultural communication, modern Greek discourse, the poetics of everyday conversation, the relationship between conversational and literary discourse, gender and language, workplace interaction, agonism in public discourse, and doctor-patient communication. ... Read more
Reviews for Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse
'Pleasant to read and constantly stimulating … an excellent introduction to the kind of analysis T[annen] does so well.' Ronald K. S. Macaulay, Language ' … a very stimulating book, it makes one look with fresh eyes on conversation and what it can tell us about linguistic structures in general.' N. F. Blake, Lore and Language 'Tannen should be ... Read more