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Let's talk : how English conversation works / David Crystal.

By: Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020Edition: First editionDescription: x, 206 pages ; 23cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780192591098
  • 0192591096
  • 9780192591104
  • 019259110X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Let's Talk : How English Conversation Works.DDC classification:
  • 302.34/6 23 C957
Contents:
Greetings!: good mornings -- In the beginning...: conversation cards -- A thousand years of conversation: battle rapping -- Exchanges: an unusual exchange -- Taking turns-or not: telephone turns -- Interrupting: one-sided turns -- What we talk about: topical allusions -- How we talk about it: enjoy! -- Taking it easy: phone beginnings -- Story-telling: a thousand days -- Stylistic options: hello, Dave -- The vocal and the visual: Dickensian pauses -- Conversation as theatre: always a conversation -- Online 'conversations': online help -- Cultural conversations: a case of cultural misunderstanding -- Breaking the rules: the father of it all -- Does conversation change?: new openings, reactions, and closings -- #Almost done -- Appendix: The football grounds conversation.
Summary: Crystal explores the factors that motivate so many different kinds of talk and reveals the rules we use unconsciously, even in the most routine exchanges of everyday conversation. We tend to think of conversation as something spontaneous, instinctive, habitual. It has been described as an art, as a game, sometimes even as a battle. Whichever metaphor we use, most people are unaware of what the rules are, how they work, and how we can bend and break them when circumstances warrant it. --From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Greetings!: good mornings -- In the beginning...: conversation cards -- A thousand years of conversation: battle rapping -- Exchanges: an unusual exchange -- Taking turns-or not: telephone turns -- Interrupting: one-sided turns -- What we talk about: topical allusions -- How we talk about it: enjoy! -- Taking it easy: phone beginnings -- Story-telling: a thousand days -- Stylistic options: hello, Dave -- The vocal and the visual: Dickensian pauses -- Conversation as theatre: always a conversation -- Online 'conversations': online help -- Cultural conversations: a case of cultural misunderstanding -- Breaking the rules: the father of it all -- Does conversation change?: new openings, reactions, and closings -- #Almost done -- Appendix: The football grounds conversation.

Crystal explores the factors that motivate so many different kinds of talk and reveals the rules we use unconsciously, even in the most routine exchanges of everyday conversation. We tend to think of conversation as something spontaneous, instinctive, habitual. It has been described as an art, as a game, sometimes even as a battle. Whichever metaphor we use, most people are unaware of what the rules are, how they work, and how we can bend and break them when circumstances warrant it. --From publisher description.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 15, 2020).