Conversational Style
Analyzing Talk among Friends
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 18 August 2005
- ISBN 9780195221817
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 208x143x18 mm
- Weight 313 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 tables, 4 black and white illustrations, 2 line drawings 0
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Short description:
Conversational Style presents a linguistic approach on how to analyze conversational style. Looking at six speakers over the course of a two-and-a-half hour Thanksgiving dinner, she 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. Tannen deliberately wrote the book to be accessible and non-technical, for appeal to both students and scholars. It continues to find course use in sociolinguistics, language and gender, and women's studies courses.
MoreLong description:
This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style-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, including the monograph Talking Voices, as well as her well-known popular books You Just Don't Understand, That's Not What I Meant!, and Talking from 9 to 5, among others.
Carefully examining the discourse of six speakers over the course of a two-and-a-half hour Thanksgiving dinner conversation, Tannen analyzes the features that make up the speakers' conversational styles, and in particular how aspects of what she calls a 'high-involvement style' have a positive effect when used with others who share the style, but a negative effect with those whose styles differ. This revised edition includes a new preface and an afterword in which Tannen discusses the book's place in the evolution of her work.
Conversational Style is written in an accessible and non-technical style that should appeal to scholars and students of discourse analysis (in fields like linguistics, anthropology, communication, sociology, and psychology) as well as general readers fascinated by Tannen's popular work. This book is an ideal text for use in introductory classes in linguistics and discourse analysis.
Praise for earlier edition: "By far the most interesting and accessible--and fun!--introduction to conversational style that I know of. Students love it, and I use it as a required textbook whenever I teach sociolinguistics."--Doug Biber, Northern Arizona University
Table of Contents:
Preface 2004
Introduction
Conversational Style: Theoretical Background
The Participants in Thanksgiving Dinner
Linguistics Devices in Conversational Style
Narrative Strategies
Irony and Joking
Summary of Style Features
The Study of Coherence in Discourse
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
