Elizabeth Couper Kuhlen: 2 books
Grammar in Everyday Talk
Building Responsive Actions
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in ordinary conversation. The authors show that speakers build their responses in a variety of ways: the responses can be longer or shorter, repetitive or not, and can be...
Interactional Linguistics
Studying Language in Social Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The first textbook dedicated to interactional linguistics, focusing on linguistic analyses of conversational phenomena, this introduction provides an overview of the theory and methodology of interactional linguistics. Reviewing recent findings on linguistic practices used in turn construction and...