Speakers, Listeners and Communication : Explorations in Discourse Analysis
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521587050
ISBN-13
9780521587051
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 13th, 1996
Print length
268 Pages
Weight
428 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.40 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Semantics, discourse analysis, etcSemantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
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Gillian Brown examines the ways in which speakers and listeners use language collaboratively to talk about what they can see in front of them and about a series of events. The focus of attention is upon the listener's role, as the listener tries to make sense of what the speaker says in a highly constrained context.
In this study Gillian Brown draws on a wide range of examples of discourse analysis to explore the ways in which speakers and listeners use language collaboratively to talk about what they can see in front of them and about a series of events. She examines the conditions under which communication is successful, and the conditions under which it sometimes fails. The focus of her attention is upon the listener''s role, as the listener tries to make sense of what the speaker says in a highly constrained context; and her cognitive/pragmatic approach to discourse analysis both complements and challenges the sociological/anthropological perspectives on the subject which currently predominate.
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