1st Edition
The Academic Presentation: Situated Talk in Action
By Johanna Rendle-Short
Copyright 2006
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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How is the task of giving a presentation accomplished? In this insightful book Johanna Rendle-Short unpacks this seemingly simple task to show the complexity that underlies it. Examining the academic presentation as a case in point, she details how seminar presenters interact with the audience and objects around them to produce a coherent whole. Through detailed examination of talk-in-interaction... Read more
Contents: Series preface. Transcription Conventions; Introduction; Transcribing video data; The presentation as monologue; Doing the academic presentation; Showing structure within the academic presentation; Doing deixis; Interacting with objects; Conclusion; References; Index.
Biography
Johanna Rendle-Short is a lecturer in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at The Australian National University, Australia.
'The book provides a meticulous dissection of the situated talk we recognize and respond to in the academic seminar, showing how that recognition and response occur and how being an academic seminar presenter is accomplished.' European Journal of Communication
