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Conversational styleDeborah Tannen

Conversational style

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"This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style - first published in 1984 - presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of work in discourse analysis, including the monograph Talking Voices, as well as her well-known popular books You Just Don't Understand, That's Not What I Meant!, and Taking from 9 to 5, among others." "Carefully examining the discourse of six speakers over the course of a two-and-a-half-hour Thanksgiving dinner conversation, Tannen analyzes the features that…

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Editions

4 editions
  • Other · English · 2010
    Oxford University Press · 9781281529060
  • Other · English · 2005
    Ebsco Publishing · 9780199725380
  • Other · English · 2005
    Oxford University Press · 244 pages · 9780195221817
  • Other · English · 1984
    Ablex Pub. Corp. · 188 pages · 9780893911881
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