Creating Conversations: Performance in Everyday Life (Perspectives on Creativity Research) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1572733292 ISBN 13: 9781572733299

Publisher: Hampton Press, 2001

Synopsis

Conversation is one of those everyday, commonsense abilities that we can all do without thinking. But paradoxically, understanding how conversation works is one of the most difficult problems for scientists - for example, even after decades of research, computers are still miserable conversationalists. This text explores this paradox: how can conversation be so difficult, and at the same time come to us so naturally.? The answer to the paradox is found in the creativity of everyday conversation. The author, a psychologist and an expert in the sciences of creativity of everyday conversation, shows that the same basic creativity - improvisational creativity - is found in conversation, jazz, children's play, and theatre.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hampton Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1572733292
• ISBN 13: 9781572733299
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Sawyer Keith