num_pages: 208
description: 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.
language: English
title: Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends
titlecomplete: Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends (Language and Learning for Human Service Professions)
genres: Writing, Reference, Linguistics, Psychology, Nonfiction, Language, Sociology, Communication
ratings_count: 96
publisher: Praeger