Let's Talk
How English Conversation Works
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 July 2020
- ISBN 9780198850694
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 222x141x22 mm
- Weight 339 g
- Language English 122
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Short description:
Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another through conversation. David Crystal explores the factors that motivate so many different kinds of talk and reveals the rules we use unconsciously, even in the most routine exchanges of everyday conversation.
MoreLong description:
Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another through conversation. David Crystal explores the factors that motivate so many different kinds of talk and reveals the rules we use unconsciously, even in the most routine exchanges of everyday conversation.
We tend to think of conversation as something spontaneous, instinctive, habitual. It has been described as an art, as a game, sometimes even as a battle. Whichever metaphor we use, most people are unaware of what the rules are, how they work, and how we can bend and break them when circumstances warrant it.
A useful addition to an English teacher's armoury and certain to pique students' interest in the language that happens all around them, all the time... Let's Talk is a powerful statement about our species and the centrality to it of conversation in all its collaborative glory.
Table of Contents:
Greetings!
In the beginning...
A thousand years of conversation
Exchanges
Taking turns - or not
Interrupting
What we talk about
How we talk about it
Taking it easy
Story-telling
Stylistic options
The vocal and the visual
Conversation as theatre
Online 'conversations'
Cultural conversations
Breaking the rules
Does conversation change?
Almost done
Epilogue
References
Index
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