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  • Speech Acoustics and Phoneticsby Gunnar Fant

    Springer 2006; US$ 69.99

    Presents an integrated view of the separate stages of the speech chain, covering the production process, speech data analysis, and speech perception. This book contains 19 articles organized in 6 chapters such as: Speech research overview with a historical outline, Speech production and synthesis, The voice source, Speech perception, and Prosody. more...

  • The Language of Turn and Sequenceby Cecilia E. Ford; Barbara A. Fox; Sandra A. Thompson

    Oxford University Press, USA 2002; US$ 124.99

    1. Introduction, Cecilia E. Ford, Barbara A. Fox, and Sandra A. Thompson. 2. Constituency and the Grammar of Turn Increments, Cecilia E. Ford, Barbara A. Fox, and Sandra A. Thompson. 3. Cultivating Prayer, Lisa Capps and Elinor Ochs. 4. Producing Sense with Nonsense Syllables: Turn and Sequence in Conversations with a Man with Severe Aphasia, Charles... more...

  • The Linguistics of Speechby William A. Kretzschmar

    Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 90.00

    An insightful study that proposes a unified theory of speech through which conflicting ideas about language might be understood. more...

  • Beyond Rhetorical Questionsby Irene Koshik

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2005; US$ 158.00

    This book uses Conversation Analysis methodology to analyze rhetorical and other questions that are designed to convey assertions, rather than seek new information. It shows how these question sequences unfold interactionally in naturally-occurring talk in a variety of settings, e.g., friends arguing over the phone, parents disciplining children, news... more...

  • Bilingual Couples Talkby Ingrid Piller

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 173.00

    This 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...

  • Negotiation and Power in Dialogic Interactionby Edda Weigand; Marcelo Dascal

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2001; US$ 180.00

    The topic of negotiation has turned out to be of crucial interdisciplinary interest for our understanding of what we are doing in language use. Are we exchanging meanings defined in advance and presupposing equal understanding on the basis of a rule-governed system, or are we negotiating meaning and understanding in the framework of an open dialogic... more...

  • The Organizing Property of Communicationby François Cooren

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2000; US$ 165.00

    What is an organization? What are the building blocks that ultimately constitute this social form, so pervasive in our daily life? Like Augustine facing the problem of time, we all know what an organization is, but we seem unable to explain it. This book brings an original answer by mobilizing concepts traditionally reserved to linguistics, analytical... more...

  • Conversation Analysisby Gene H. Lerner

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004; US$ 173.00

    This 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...

  • Second Language Interactionby Salla Kurhila

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 165.00

    Members of divergent societies are increasingly involved in interactional situations, both publicly and privately, where participants do not share linguistic resources. Second language conversations have become common everyday events in the globalized world, and an interest has evolved to determine how interaction is conducted and understanding achieved... more...

  • Emotion in Dialogic Interactionby Edda Weigand

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2004; US$ 158.00

    This 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...