An Introduction to Spoken Interaction

by Anna-Brita Stenstrom

Overview

Describes how conversation works, providing a systematic and exhaustive account of the structure of spoken discourse and the diverse strategies speakers use to have a conversation. It is illustrated throughout with excerpts from genuine conversation and contains numerous exercises with suggested answers based on conversations in the London-Lund Corpus of English Conversation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780582071308
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/21/1994
Series:	Learning about Language Series
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Key to symbols
Preface
Acknowledgements

1. General Characteristics
2. Interactional structure
3. Interactional strategies
4. Conversation
5. Discourse and grammar

Answers to the exercises
Glossary
References
Index