Conversation and Discourse: Structure and Interpretation (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1032270322 ISBN 13: 9781032270326

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

First published in 1981, Conversation and Discourse attempts to draw together papers illustrating the various different approaches to conversational analysis broadly divided into papers of description and experiment on one hand and papers of theory and analysis on the other. The ordinary speaker finds conversation to be by far the easiest variety of language and it is perhaps for this reason that its manifold, shifting and problematic nature has been overlooked for so long. The performance errors and eccentric constructions that characterise conversation make it remarkably difficult to analyse by orthodox syntactic theory- hence numerous methodologies have been formulated in the field of inquiry, ranging from Gricean theories of conversational implicature to ethnomethodological conversational analysis. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of linguistics, language and literature.

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Paul Werth

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032270322
• ISBN 13: 9781032270326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186
• Editor: Werth Paul