Talking Voices
Subtitle: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 31, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780521688963
Subjects: Sociolinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Linguistics
First sentence: The central idea of this book is that ordinary conversation is made up of linguistic strategies that have been thought quintessentially literary.