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  • © 1994

Analysing Talk

Investigating Verbal Interaction in English

Authors:

  1. David Langford
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Part of the book series: Studies in English Language (SEL)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Talk and its place in our lives

    • David Langford
    Pages 1-16

  3. Imagining the organisation of talk

    • David Langford
    Pages 17-30

  4. Transcribing the organisation of talk

    • David Langford
    Pages 31-58

  5. Seeing the organisation of talk

    • David Langford
    Pages 59-68

  6. Taking turns in two-party talk

    • David Langford
    Pages 69-99

  7. Taking turns in multi-party talk

    • David Langford
    Pages 100-118

  8. Patterns in speech activities

    • David Langford
    Pages 119-155

  9. Patterns in speech events

    • David Langford
    Pages 156-183

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 185-190
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About this book

The book offers a step-by-step approach to the task of describing what is systematic in conversational behaviour. The book is organised as a series of practical exercises, teaching skills such as transcribing verbal interaction and identifying and describing 'special events'. An investigation is made into how participants show awareness of patterns of speech structure (eg taking turns and interrupting).
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