An Introduction to Spoken Interaction

By Anna-Brita Stenström and Anna-Brita Stenstrom

This book attempts to meet the increasing demand for descriptions of how conversation works for analysing spoken interaction. It provides a systematic and exhaustive account of the structure of spoken discourse and the diverse strategies speakers use to have a conversation. It is illustrated throughout with excerpts from genuine conversation and contains numerous exercises with suggested answers based on conversations in the London-Lund Corpus of English Conversation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582071305
• ISBN13: 9780582071308
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"