An Introduction to Spoken Interaction

ISBN-13: 9781138165199 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 252 str.

Anna-Brita Stenstrom

Opis

This book attempts to meet the increasing demand for descriptions of how conversation works for analysing spoken interaction. It provides a systematic and exhaustive account of the structure of spoken discourse and the diverse strategies speakers use to have a conversation. It is illustrated throughout with excerpts from genuine conversation and contains numerous exercises with suggested answers based on conversations in the London-Lund Corpus of English Conversation.

Spis treści

Key to symbols
Preface
Acknowledgements

1. General Characteristics
2. Interactional structure
3. Interactional strategies
4. Conversation
5. Discourse and grammar

Answers to the exercises
Glossary
References
Index

O autorze

Anna-Brita Stenstrom