Humans are imperfect and problems of speaking hearing and understanding are pervasive in ordinary interaction. This book examines the way we repair and correct such problems as they arise in conversation and other forms of human interaction. The first book-length st... Lees meer.

This study combines analysis of actual talk and power technologies with a reflection on the communicative representation of cultural constructs such as truth and credibility to examine shifting relationships between witnesses and the Justice Department in the trials of... Lees meer.

Matters of Opinion offers an interesting insight into public opinion as reported in the media asking where these opinions actually come from and how they have their effects. Drawing on the analysis of conversations from focus groups phone-ins and broadcast intervie... Lees meer.

The contributors to this volume explore a rich variety of linkages between interaction and grammar proposing as their starting-point that the very integrity of grammar is bound up with its place in the larger schemes of the organisation of human conduct particularly s... Lees meer.

The essays in this volume are all original contributions dealing in one way or another with the analysis of prosody - primarily intonation and rhythm - and the role it plays in everyday conversation. They take as their methodological starting point the contention that t... Lees meer.

This study identifies key mechanisms through which a young child operates with external knowledge in her immediate social context. Central to this is the child s capacity to draw on discourse-based understandings which have become evident in prior interaction. These und... Lees meer.

This book examines Chinese communicative strategies with formal analysis of taped interchanges and in-depth interviews to reveal speakers distinctive ways of talking. Chinese and Americans often unwittingly communicate at cross purposes because they are misled by... Lees meer.

Chinese and Americans often unwittingly communicate at cross purposes because they are misled by the cultural trappings of talk. This book aims to clarify their misunderstandings by examining their different ideals and strategies of talk. It draws on cultural philosoph... Lees meer.

Bringing together a team of global experts this is the first volume to focus on the ways in which meanings are ascribed to actions in social interaction. It builds on the research traditions of Conversation Analysis and Pragmatics and highlights the role of interactio... Lees meer.

What we say always consists of prior words structures and meanings that are combined in new ways and re-used in new contexts for new listeners. In this book Deborah Schiffrin looks at two important tasks of language - presenting who we are talking about the referen... Lees meer.

The study of language and law has seen explosive growth in the past twenty-five years. Research on police interrogations trial examination jury deliberation plea bargains same sex marriage to name a few has shown the central role of written and oral forms of langu... Lees meer.

Matters of Opinion offers an interesting insight into public opinion as reported in the media asking where these opinions actually come from and how they have their effects. Drawing on the analysis of conversations from focus groups phone-ins and broadcast intervie... Lees meer.

Cecilia Ford contributes to a growing body of research on grammar in discourse which has until recently remained largely focused on monologic rather than dialogic functions of language. Cecilia E. Ford explores the question. what work do adverbial clauses do in con... Lees meer.

This volume explores a variety of linkages between grammar and social interaction. Many scholars of language have accepted a view of grammar as a clearly delineated and internally coherent structure which is best understood as a self-contained system. The contributor... Lees meer.