author: deborah tannen

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

... water that never dries up, “sits in places.” Wisdom is analogous to water, sustaining the body: You need to drink ... walk a long way and live a long time. You will be wise. People will respect you. (Basso 1996:70) Apache place names ...

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

... Bad News” studies by the Glasgow University Media Group (1976, 1980, 1982 ... sentences (see Martin, this volume). The point of such research is that ... de-emphasized by defocusing, e.g. by passive constructions and nominalizations; that ...

Linguistics in Context--Connecting Observation and Understanding

... interpretation . Translated by John B. Thompson . Cambridge University Press . Ross , Haj . 1981. Robert Frost's " Out , Out- " : Crossing the boundaries in linguistics , ed . by W. Klein and W. Levelt , 265-82 . Boston : Reidel ...

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1981: Analyzing Discourse: Text and Talk

... outline of narrative clauses , and to outline the generating mechanism that produces the narrative backbone . Reportability . When people tell narratives , they occupy a larger ... Speech Actions and Reactions in Personal Narrative / 227.

Framing in Discourse

... Goffman : Framing , Footing , and " Fresh Talk " Strategies For Goffman , the study of " framing " is the study of the organization of experience . In Frame Analysis ( 1974 ) , he articulates the implicit conven- tions that distinguish ...

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Communication (with featured article "The Necessary Art of Persuasion," by Jay A. Conger)

... Necessary. Art. of. Persuasion. by. Jay. A. Conger. IF THERE EVER WAS A time for businesspeople to learn the fine art of persuasion, it is now. Gone are the command-and-control days of executives managing by ... The Necessary Art of ...

Gender and Conversational Interaction

The theoretical thrust of the collection, like that of Tannen's own work, is anthropological and sociolinguistic: female and male styles are approached as different "cultural" practice.

You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women's Friendships

... Dunkle and Clare B. Dunkle, is Elena Vanishing: A Memoir (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2015). The authors appeared on The Diane Rehm Show on May 20, 2015. A cartoon on BuzzFeed: “Friendship Realities” by Rubyetc is number 10 of 159 ...

You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women's Friendships

... Gloria Vanderbilt and her son Anderson Cooper: Vanderbilt and Cooper discussed their book, The Rainbow Comes and Goes, on The Diane Rehm Shou, March 31, 2016. In her book Cultural Misunderstandings: Raymonde Carroll, Cultural ...

Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue, and Imagery in Conversational Discourse

... proverbs and sayings such as “It takes one to know one,” which all native speakers of English would recognize and ... Things fall apart (1958: 5–6), proverbs play a crucial role when a speaker, visiting a neighbor, is ready to get to the ...

The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words

... hazing rituals turn up in the news when young men are seri- ously hurt or ... Gay ointment . " These are tame in com- parison to the dangerous ones ... frat history as well as the personal history of brothers , through " constant beatings ...

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