<b>Talking voices</b> : Repetition, dialogue, and imagery in conversational discourse. (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, 6.) By Deborah Tannen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. x, 240. Cloth $49.50, paper $14.95. 论文

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发表日期

1991-06-01

发表年份

1991

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Acknowledgements 1. Introduction Overview of chapters Discourse analysis 2. Involvement in discourse Involvement Sound and sense in discourse Involvement strategies Scenes and music in creating involvement 3. Repetition in conversation: toward a poetics of talk Theoretical implications of repetition Repetition in discourse Functions of repetition in conversation Repetition and variation in conversation Examples of functions of repetition The range of repetition in a segment of conversation Individual and cultural differences Other genres The automaticity of repetition The drive to imitate Conclusion 4. 'Oh talking voice that is so sweet': constructing dialogue in conversation Reported speech and dialogue Dialogue in storytelling Reported criticism in conversation Reported speech is constructed dialogue Constructed dialogue in a conversational narrative Modern Greek stories Brazilian narrative Dialogue in writers' conversation Conclusion 5. Imagining worlds: imagery and detail in conversation and other genres The role of details and images in creating involvement Details in conversation Images and details in narrative Nonnarrative or quasinarrative conversational discourse Rapport through telling details The intimacy of details Spoken literary discourse Written discourse High-involvement writing When details don't work or work for ill Conclusion 6. Involvement strategies in consort: literary non-fiction and political oratory Thinking with feeling Literary non-fiction Speaking and writing with involvement Involvement in political oratory Conclusion 7. Afterword: toward a humanistic linguistics Appendix I. Sources of examples Appendix II. Transcription conventions Notes List of references Author index Subject index.