Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue and Imagery in Conversational Discourse (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, Series Number 6)

by Deborah Tannen

Book Overview

Written in readable, vivid, non-technical prose, this book, first published in 2007, presents the highly respected scholarly research that forms the foundation for Deborah Tannen's best-selling books... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521379008
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.3" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

an important topic for serious students of social meaning

Readers who expect gender-difference discussion will be disappointed; this book's topic is very different, though equally important. Tannen shows that repetition of key pieces of a speaker's utterance are useful in a variety of ways: they maintain a topic, allow turn-taking which supports the story-teller, and reinforce a speaker's point. She also demonstrates how repetition and other cooperative strategies help conversational partners negotiate meaning together.