Bøger i Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics serien

Reported speech, or the quotation of others' words, is used in many different types of interaction. In this revealing study, a team of leading experts explore how reported speech is designed, the actions it is used to perform, and how it fits into the environments in which it is used.

'Conversation analysis' is an approach to the study of social interaction that focuses on practices of speaking that recur across a range of contexts and settings. Through detailed analyses of recorded conversations, this book examines differences and similarities across a wide range of languages including Finnish, Japanese, Russian, and Mandarin.

The relationship between language, discourse and identity has always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation, which in recent years has been revolutionized by some pioneering models and approaches. By applying these to numerous social contexts, this volume sheds light on how our social practices help shape our identities.

In this 2006 volume, a team of leading contributors from the fields of linguistics, sociology and medicine examine how doctors and patients communicate in primary care consultations. Clear, informative and comprehensive, it will be essential reading for students and researchers in sociolinguistics, communication studies, sociology, and medicine.

The relationship between language, discourse and identity has always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation, which in recent years has been revolutionized by some pioneering models and approaches. By applying these to numerous social contexts, this volume sheds light on how our social practices help shape our identities.

Reported speech, or the quotation of others' words, is used in many different types of interaction. In this revealing study, a team of leading experts explore how reported speech is designed, the actions it is used to perform, and how it fits into the environments in which it is used.

The contributors to this volume explore a rich variety of linkages between interaction and grammar, proposing as their starting-point that the very integrity of grammar is bound up with its place in the larger schemes of the organisation of human conduct, particularly social interaction.

The essays in this volume are all analyses of prosody - primarily intonation and rhythm - and the role it plays in everyday conversation, and they study material which is taken not from laboratory data but from genuine English, German, and Italian conversations.

Talk at Work is a major collection of studies of language and interaction in a wide variety of institutional and workplace settings.

The essays in this volume are all analyses of prosody - primarily intonation and rhythm - and the role it plays in everyday conversation, and they study material which is taken not from laboratory data but from genuine English, German, and Italian conversations.

The contributors to this volume explore a rich variety of linkages between interaction and grammar, proposing as their starting-point that the very integrity of grammar is bound up with its place in the larger schemes of the organisation of human conduct, particularly social interaction.