Conversational Routines in English: Convention and Creativity - Rilegato

Aijmer, Karin

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0582082129 ISBN 13: 9780582082120

Casa editrice: Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, 1996

Riassunto

This thorough study draws upon original data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English to provide a discoursal and pragmatic account of the more common expressions found in conversational routines, such as apologizing, thanking, requesting, offering.
The routines studied in this book range from conventionalized or idiomatized phrases to those which can be generated by grammar. Examples have been taken from face-to-face conversations, radio discussions and telephone conversations, and transcription has been based upon the prosodic system of Crystal (1989).
An extensive introduction provides the theory and methodology for the book and discusses the criteria for fixedness, grammatical analysis, and pragmatic functions of conversational routines which are later applied to the phrases. Following chapters deal specifically with phrases for thanking, apologizing, requesting, offering, and discourse-organizing markers for conversational routines, on the basis of empirical investigation of the data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Karin Aijmer is Professor of English at Goteborg University, Sweden.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0582082129
• ISBN 13: 9780582082120
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 251
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile