Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends by Deborah Tannen

Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends

Language and Learning for Human Service Professions

Deborah Tannen

198 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction psychology reference informative reflective medium-paced

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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, storytell...

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