Investigating Intimate Discourse: Exploring the Spoken Interaction of Families, Couples and Friends

by Brian Clancy

Book Overview

Intimate discourse - that between couples, family and close friends in private, non-professional settings - lies at the heart of our everyday linguistic experience. It creates and sustains our closest relationships.

Using an innovative blend of the community of practice model with a corpus linguistic methodology, Brian Clancy expertly reveals the patterns that characterise the shared linguistic repertoire of intimates. Corpus methods such...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415706327
• ISBN13: 9780415706322
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"