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Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends - Tannen, Deborah, PhD
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This book provides a basic approach to the linguistic analysis of conversation, building toward a theory of the aesthetics of conversation by analyzing spontaneous talk among friends. It sheds light on such issues as pacing, turn-taking, storytelling, and humor, showing the effects on interaction when participants' conversational styles differ. Its readability makes it suitable for use as a text in discourse analysis at all levels.

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Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends 2005, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195221817

Trade paperback

Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends 1984, Praeger, New York

ISBN-13: 9780893912000

Trade paperback

Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends 1984, Praeger, New York

ISBN-13: 9780893911881

Hardcover