Analysing Casual Conversation (EQUINOX TEXTBOOKS & SURVEYS IN LINGUISTICS)
by Suzanne Eggins
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This book develops a systematic model for the analyses and description of casual conversation in English. Working through examples of casual conversations, the authors argue that despite its sometimes aimless appearance and apparently unstructured content, casual conversation is a highly structured semantic activity and plays a critical role in the social construction of reality.Tags
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This is hardcore Hallidayan linguistics, but it is valuable for writers and readers of fiction in one important sense - how conversational dialogue actually works, as opposed to how novelists think it works (of course, it's impossible to represent wholly naturalistic dialogue in fiction anyway).
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