Conversational Style - Tannen, Deborah
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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.

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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.
Autorenporträt
Deborah Tannen is University Professor and Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She followed the first edition of this book, published in 1984, with Gender and Discourse (OUP, 1994), and is the editor of Framing in Discourse and Gender and Conversational Interaction (both OUP, 1993). In all, she has published nineteen books highlighting gender differences in discourse, including most notably The New York Times Best Seller You Just Don't Understand.