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Bilingual Couples Talk
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 173.00This sociolinguistic study of the linguistic practices of bilingual couples describes the conditions, processes and results of private language contact. It is based on a unique corpus of more than 20 hours of private conversations between partners in bilingual marriages. Adding to its breadth of coverage, these private conversations are supplemented... more...
Conversation Analysis
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004; US$ 173.00This collection assembles early, yet previously unpublished research into the practices that organize conversational interaction by many of the central figures in the development and advancement of Conversation Analysis as a discipline. Using the methods of sequential analysis as first developed by Harvey Sacks, the authors produce detailed empirical... more...
Emotion in Dialogic Interaction
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004; US$ 158.00This volume contains a selection of papers given at the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on ?Emotion in Dialogic Interaction? at the University of Münster in October 2002. In the literature, the complex network of ?emotion in dialogic interaction? is mostly addressed by reducing the complex and separating emotions or defining them by... more...
Essays in Speech Act Theory
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2001; US$ 173.00Any study of communication must take into account the nature and role of speech acts in a broad context. This book addresses questions such as: - What do we mean? - How do we say it? and - How is it understood? in the broad context of universal, socio-cultural and psychological issues that bear on human communication. It presents an overview of current... more...
Features of Naturalness in Conversation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 173.00The study describes a detailed and original piece of research work, investigating a very important genre of human communication, and that is conversation. It provides a definition of the genre of conversation by describing nine features of conversation, namely multiple sources, discourse coherence, language as doing, co-operation, unfolding, open-endedness,... more...
Getting Acquainted in Conversation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2000; US$ 180.00What makes a ‘getting acquainted’ a recognizable conversational activity, and how are interpersonal relationships established in a first conversation? This book presents a theoretical framework for the study of relationship management in conversation and an empirical study of a corpus of initial interactions. It provides detailed descriptions... more...
Linguistic Dimensions of Crisis Talk
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2005; US$ 165.00This book offers an HPSG-based discourse grammar for a controlled language (Air Traffic Control) that allows the identification of well-formed discourse patterns. A formalisation of discourse theoretical structures that occur especially in crisis situations that involve potential aviation disasters is introduced. Of particular importance in this context... more...
Faktor Anerkennung
Campus Verlag 2007; US$ 48.52Hauptbeschreibung Aufbauend auf »Der Anerkennende Erfahrungsaustausch« (Campus 2004) zeigen die Autoren anhand von Erfahrungsberichten von Managern, Betriebsräten und Mitarbeitern, wie man die Stärken des Modells ausbauen sowie Schwächen und Probleme beheben kann. Fragebögen und Checklisten ergänzen den Praxisnutzen des Buches und erläutern, wie... more...
Approaching Dialogue
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1998; US$ 180.00Approaching Dialogue has its primary focus on the theoretical understanding and empirical analysis of talk-in-interaction. It deals with conversation in general as well as talk within institutions against a backdrop of Conversation Analysis, context-based discourse analysis, social pragmatics, socio-cultural theory and interdisciplinary dialogue... more...
On Speech Act Verbs
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1980; US$ 98.00This essay concerns the analysis of speech act verbs. It offers a range of ideas which form theoretical preliminaries to the analysis of this phenomenon. more...









