Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse Author: Deborah Tannen | Language: English | ISBN:
0521868904 | Format: EPUB
Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse Description
Written in readable, vivid, non-technical prose, 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 relationships. A significant theoretical and methodological contribution to both linguistic and literary analysis, it uses transcripts of tape-recorded conversation to demonstrate that everyday conversation is made of features that are associated with literary discourse: repetition, dialogue, and details that create imagery. This second edition features a new introduction in which the author shows the relationship between this groundbreaking work and the research that has appeared since its original publication in 1989. In particular, she shows its relevance to the contemporary topic 'intertextuality', and provides a useful summary of research on that topic.
- Series: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics (Book 26)
- Paperback: 244 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 2 edition (November 5, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0521868904
- ISBN-13: 978-0521868907
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
I've read all of Dr. Tannen's books, and "Tannen fans" love to quip that we wish we could bring her along to business and social functions to let us know what's really going on beneath our conversations! Of all the things she's been called, perhaps the most accurate is a translator-- par excellance. While all of Deb's books are "user friendly" and have immense value for dialogue in important relationships like our jobs, marriages, loves, friends... etc., the present volume is her "academic opus," containing many of the foundational premises for her never ending astuteness when it comes to linguistics. Time after time Tannen nails the deep undercurrents of semiotics, syntax, and especially context. She's now written about sisters and sisters, significant others, men and women, kids and parents, and cultural differences. But I've always been anxious for a "deeper read," since we all sense she has some natural gift for seeing many levels down in conversation analysis in addition to her linguistic training. Although Talking Voices focuses on reported dialog, political speeches, repetitive structures in different contexts, etc. in a very deeply nuanced and tightly researched referenced fashion, Doc Tannen also manages to convey her wonderful insights with her usual down to earth, example-filled brillance, keeping us moving along like the book was a page turner rather than a deep exploration of linguistic structures.
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