Creating conversations
Subtitle: improvisation in everyday discourse
By: R. Keith Sawyer.
Series: Perspectives on creativity
Publisher: Hampton Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cresskill, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Conversation.; Discourse analysis.; Creativity (Linguistics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-252) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Scripts and Improvisations; title: Scripts; title: Improvisation; title: Back to the Script, Part 1:; title: Using Scripted Lines in Conversation; title: Back to the Script Part 2: Themes and Variations; title: Improvised Conversations:; title: Towards a New Performance Metaphor; title: 2. Dialogues; title: How Conversation Works, Part 1: The Fourth Wall; title: How Conversation Works, Part 2: Taking Turns; title: Collaborative Creativity; title: 3. Audiences; title: Creating the Audience; title: Overhearers; title: Performing for Multiple Audiences; title: Invisible Audiences; title: Crossing the Fourth Wall; title: Mediated Conversations; title: 4. Rehearsals; title: Learning to Improvise; title: Group Learning in Rehearsal; title: The Secret History of Conversation; title: 5. Characters; title: The Characters of Everyday Life; title: Professional Characters; title: Multiple Characters; title: Ventriloquism; title: The Real Self and the Social Self; title: 6. Settings; title: Formal and Informal Conversation; title: Ritual and Improvisation; title: Negotiating the Setting; title: 7. Performances; title: The Performance of Everyday Life; title: Creating Conversation at Work; title: Learning by Creating Conversation; title: Epilogue; title: Notes; title: References; title: Author Index; title: Subject Index.