Conversational Style

Zusatztext Praise for earlier edition: "A contribution not only for the general reader but for any researcher or student interested in conversation."--Language and Society Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This revised edition of Tannen's first discourse analysis book--first published in 1984--presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of work in discourse analysis. Zusammenfassung Looking at six speakers over the course of a two-and-a-half hour thanksgiving dinner, this work analyzes the features that make up their conversational style, and in particular how these styles function in a positive manner when those style are similar to one another, and in a negative way when they are different. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 2004 1: Introduction 2: Conversational Style: Theoretical Background 3: The Participants in Thanksgiving Dinner 4: Linguistics Devices in Conversational Style 5: Narrative Strategies 6: Irony and Joking 7: Summary of Style Features 8: The Study of Coherence in Discourse 9: 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: Flow of Topics in Thanksgiving Conversation References Author Index Subject Index

Auteur
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.

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This revised edition of Tannen's first discourse analysis book--first published in 1984--presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of work in discourse analysis.

Résumé
Looking at six speakers over the course of a two-and-a-half hour thanksgiving dinner, this work analyzes the features that make up their conversational style, and in particular how these styles function in a positive manner when those style are similar to one another, and in a negative way when they are different.

Contenu

• Preface 2004

• 1: Introduction

• 2: Conversational Style: Theoretical Background

• 3: The Participants in Thanksgiving Dinner

• 4: Linguistics Devices in Conversational Style

• 5: Narrative Strategies

• 6: Irony and Joking

• 7: Summary of Style Features

• 8: The Study of Coherence in Discourse

• 9: 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: Flow of Topics in Thanksgiving Conversation

• References

• Author Index

• Subject Index