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Talking voices : repetition, dialogue, and imagery in conversational discourse /

"This book presents the highly respected scholarly research that forms the foundation for Deborah Tannen's best-selling books about the role of language in human relationships. It provides a clear framework for understanding how ordinary conversation works to create meaning and establish r...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tannen, Deborah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 25.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to first edition
  • Introduction to second edition
  • Involvement in discourse
  • Repetition in conversation: toward a poetics of talk
  • "Oh talking voice that is so sweet": constructing dialogue in conversation
  • Imagining worlds: imagery and detail in conversation and other genres
  • Involvement strategies in consort: literary nonfiction and political oratory
  • Afterword: toward a humanistic linguistics.