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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782881903321

Autore

Tannen Deborah

Titolo

Conversational style [[electronic resource] ] : analyzing talk among friends / / Deborah Tannen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-19-772147-8

0-19-988515-X

1-281-52906-0

9786611529062

0-19-972538-1

Edizione

[New ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

302.3/46

Soggetti

Conversation analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: New York : Ablex Publishing. 1984.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

Preface to the 2005 Edition. 1. Introduction. 2. Conversational Style: Theoretical Background. 3. The Participants in Thanksgiving Dinner. 4. Linguistic 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: The Flow of Topics. References. Author Index. Subject Index