Routledge
252 pages
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.
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Preface
Acknowledgements
1. General Characteristics
2. Interactional structure
3. Interactional strategies
4. Conversation
5. Discourse and grammar
Answers to the exercises
Glossary
References
Index
