This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style--first published in 1984--presents an approach to analyzing convers

This revised edition of Tannen's first discourse analysis book--first published in 1984--presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the ha

Presenting a linguistic approach to the analysis of conversational style, this book focuses on six speakers during a dinnerparty & shows how styles work in a po

Abstract from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, University of Paderborn (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikani

At home, on the job, in a personal relationship, it's often not what you say but how you say it that counts. Deborah Tannen revolutionized our thinking about re