1st Edition
Language in Action Psychological Models of Conversation
By William Turnbull
Copyright 2003
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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Face-to-face conversation between two or more people is a universal form, and perhaps the basic form, of social interaction. It is the primary site of social interaction in all cultures and the place where social and cultural meaning takes shape. Face-to-face conversation between children and parents can also be an important context for social and cognitive development. Given the universality,... Read more
Introduction: The Conversing Organism. The Code Model. The Speech Act Model. The Inferential Model. The Interpersonal Dimension. Conversation Analysis. Social Pragmatics. Summary and Conclusions.
Biography
William Turnbull is Associate Chair for Psychology and is based at the Simon Fraser University in Canada. He is an expert in the field of social interaction and conversation.
'The organization is excellent and I very much liked the insistent use of real talk, collected and properly transcribed by the author. This gives the book not only a cohesion and immediacy, but also applies the strong (and, to my mind) entirely appropriate test of real-world exchanges to approaches which sometimes slip by on armchair examples. A real plus.' - Charles Antaki, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University
