Conversational style : analyzing talk among friends / Deborah Tannen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tannen, Deborah, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversation analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

New ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Presenting a linguistic approach to the analysis of conversational style, this book focuses on six speakers during a dinnerparty & shows how styles work in a positive manner when they are similar to one another & in a negative way when they are different.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface to the 2005 Edition; One: Introduction; Two: Conversational Style: Theoretical Background; Three: The Participants in Thanksgiving Dinner; Four: Linguistic Devices in Conversational Style; Five: Narrative Strategies; Six: Irony and Joking; Seven: Summary of Style Features; Eight: The Study of Coherence in Discourse; Nine: Coda: Taking the Concepts into the Present; Appendix 1: Key to Transcription Conventions; Appendix 2: Steps in Analyzing Conversation; Appendix 3: Participants in Thanksgiving Dinner; Appendix 4: The Flow of Topics; References; Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Originally published: New York : Ablex Publishing. 1984.

Previously issued in print: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-772147-8

0-19-988515-X

1-281-52906-0

9786611529062

0-19-972538-1

OCLC:

476259436