Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue and Imagery in Conversational Discourse

by Deborah Tannen

Book Overview

Written in readable, vivid, non-technical prose, this book, first published in 2007, presents the highly respected scholarly research that forms the foundation for Deborah Tannen's best-selling books... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521370019
• ISBN13: 9780521370011
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

an important topic for serious students of social meaning

Readers who expect gender-difference discussion will be disappointed; this book's topic is very different, though equally important. Tannen shows that repetition of key pieces of a speaker's utterance are useful in a variety of ways: they maintain a topic, allow turn-taking which supports the story-teller, and reinforce a speaker's point. She also demonstrates how repetition and other cooperative strategies help conversational partners negotiate meaning together.