Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse: 26 (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, Series Number 26) - Softcover

Tannen, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521868904 ISBN 13: 9780521868907

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

This book, first published in 2007, provides a clear framework for understanding how ordinary conversation creates meaning and establishes relationships.

About this title

About the Author

Deborah Tannen is University Professor and Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She has published twenty books and over 100 articles on such topics as family discourse, spoken and written language, cross-cultural communication, modern Greek discourse, the poetics of everyday conversation, the relationship between conversational and literary discourse, gender and language, workplace interaction, agonism in public discourse, and doctor-patient communication.

From the Back Cover

Talking Voices is a radical contribution to both linguistic and literary analysis. In this important new book Deborah Tannen shows how conversation provides the source for linguistic strategies that are shaped and elaborated in literary discourse and other spoken and written, public and private genres. She explores the scenic and musical basis of both textual meaning and interpersonal involvement in discourse. Repetition establisher rhythm and meaning by patterns of constants and contrasts. Dialogue and imagery create scenes peopled by characters in relation to each other, doing things that are culturally and personally recognizable and meaningful.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521868904
• ISBN 13: 9780521868907
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 244