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Let's talk : how English conversation works / David Crystal. by Crystal, David, author. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020. Description:  x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Greetings! : good mornings -- In the beginning... : conversation cards -- A thousand years of conversation : battle rapping -- Exchanges : an unusual exchange -- Taking turns-or not : telephone turns -- Interrupting : one-sided turns -- What we talk about : topical allusions -- How we talk about it : enjoy! -- Taking it easy : phone beginnings -- Story-telling : a thousand days -- Stylistic options : hello, Dave -- The vocal and the visual : Dickensian pauses -- Conversation as theatre : always a conversation -- Online 'conversations' : online help -- Cultural conversations : a case of cultural misunderstanding -- Breaking the rules : the father of it all -- Does conversation change? : new openings, reactions, and closings -- #Almost done. Summary:  Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another through conversation. David Crystal explores the factors that motivate so many different kinds of talk and reveals the rules we use unconsciously, even in the most routine exchanges of everyday conversation. We tend to think of conversation as something spontaneous, instinctive, habitual. It has been described as an art, as a game, sometimes even as a battle. Whichever metaphor we use, most people are unaware of what the rules are, how they work, and how we can bend and break them when circumstances warrant it.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 302.34 Cry 2020 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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