English Conversation

Considers types of questions in English conversation, discussing the relationship between discourse and grammar, analytical procedures and principles, patterns and functions of declarative questions, and patterns and functions of non-clausal questions. More

This is the first historical investigation on the nonverbal component of conversation. In the courtly society of 16th and 17th century England, it is argued that a drift appeared toward an increased use of prosodic means of expression at the expense of gestural means. Direct evidence is provided by… More

Storytelling is a fundamental mode of everyday interaction. Based on new data and cutting-edge technologies, this groundbreaking book makes use of a specialized corpus of naturally occurring narratives to facilitate large-scale quantitative investigations, and offer new insights, into how narrators… More

This study on point of view and grammar takes as its starting point the notion that language - in particular casual conversation - is subjective to varying degrees. The theory and practise that inform this study are usage-based. More

An exploration of the linguistic patterns formed by expressions of epistemic modality in American English conversational discourse, and the functions that such patterns may serve in social interaction. More

…a comprehensive account of conversation in English and its implications for the ELT classroom. After a general overview and definition of conversation it provides the reader with a systematic description of conversational English, from the vocabulary of conversation, to grammar, discourse and genre.… More

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By conducting ""imagined dialogues"" between selected literary works - Eastern European, American and English - this book proposes an alternative way of reading literature. More

An examination of how The Book of Psalms shaped medieval thought and helped develop the medieval English literary canon. More

A selection of previously published articles, with a new Introduction, exploring the interaction between English poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and those of ancient Greece and Rome, and emphasizing the element of exchange and dialogue between the two. More

…into two parts. The first part describes the methods used to build the first sizeable corpus of informal conversational data collected from bilingual speakers of Welsh and English: Siarad. The second part describes the linguistic analysis of data from this corpus (available at bangortalk.org.uk).… More

A conversation about what English national identity actually means. -- . More

…study of naturally-occurring English conversations between Hong Kong Chinese and their native English friends and colleagues makes a worthwhile contribution to the research literature on intercultural conversation. Through analyzing dyadic intercultural conversations, the study investigates the ways… More

A master at dramatic dialogue, captured in real-life conversation about his work More

Reflections by the author of Dancing at Lughnasa on Irish writers, the theater, nationalism, Catholicism, and his childhood More

This text is a composite critical biography of Locke and Blake, who were both significant to 18th-century culture. Organized by topics of cultural significance for the period, it illuminates ideas of Locke and Blake and the cultural contexts and transformations of the ""period"" they shared. More

In an appearance on "The Dick Cavett Show" in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, 'including 'and' and 'the'. This book offers a many-faceted examination of Hellman's infamous suit and explores what it tells us about tensions between… More

This study of Kenneth Burke's writings traces the critic's commitment and contribution to philosophy prior to 1945. The author contends that rather than belonging to the late-modernist tradition, Burke actually starts from a position closely akin to such postmodern figures as Michel Foucault. More

This book provides an overview of Singapore English in straightforward, non-technical language. All the findings presented in the book are illustrated with extensive examples from one hour of recorded conversational data. More

…English Nationalists examines how the Catholic conversions of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ford Madox Ford, T. S. Eliot (an Anglo-Catholic), Evelyn Waugh, and Graham Greene influenced and were influenced by literary modernism in England. These modernist Catholic converts in England owe their conversions… More

…joined the Roman Catholic Church in the middle years of the nineteenth century. This work deals primarily with the ways in which the converts' own lives were affected by their change of religion - how conversion impacted on their relations with family and friends, their work, and their daily life. More

Singapore English: A grammatical description provides a vivid account of current, contemporary Singapore English, complementing older seminal accounts of this variety. Drawing primarily on the Grammar of Spoken Singapore English Corpus, which comprises naturally-occurring conversational speech, the… More

The first comprehensive description of English word formation covers inflection and derivation, compounding, conversion, and minor processes such as subtractive morphology. It combines theory-neutral presentation of data with theoretically informed analysis. Written by three outstanding scholars,… More

…interactional and social conversation. Variously termed 'hedges', 'fumbles' and 'conversational greasers' in earlier academic studies, this book explores the meaning, function and role of 'well', 'I mean', 'just', 'sort of', 'like' and 'you know' in British English. Adopting a sociolinguistic… More

…of grammar and language processing, based on the analysis of authentic speech produced in real time. Drawing on insights from cognitive psychology, neurolinguistics and conversation analysis, the author offers a fascinating, easy-to-follow account of why spoken English is structured the way it is. More

Written in a conversational tone, this text takes a totally new learningapproach to relating business English to the workplace. Up-to-datetopics of telecommunications, customer service, online references, electronic mail, and a host of other real-world subjects connect directlyto an assortment of… More

Robert Parson's plans for restoring Catholicism involved either the conversion of James VI of Scotland or the installation of the Spanish Infanta. Parsons's ideas became an integral part of the struggle between Catholicism and Protestantism in religion and between constitutionalism and absolutism in… More

This book explores the threat of Christian conversion to Islam in twelve early modern English plays. In works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Massinger, and others, conversion from Christianity to Islam is represented as both tragic and erotic, as a fate worse than death and as a sexual seduction. More

This book shows that over forty years of psychological laboratory-based research support the claims of the Lexical Priming Theory. It examines how Lexical Priming applies to the use of spoken English as the book provides evidence that Lexical Priming is found in everyday spoken conversations. More

Covers topics such as transitivity, theme-rheme, mood, and modality in English. This book also presents papers on English intonation and grammar including discussion of word order in English and the complex structures typical of informal spontaneous conversation. More

This collection of interviews presents a portrait of late-20th century British and American gay fiction writers. Featured authors include David Leavitt, Edmund White, Michael Cunningham, Andrew Holleran, Scott Heim, and Alan Hollinghurst. More

Based on the analysis of conversations between French and Australian English speakers discussing various topics, including their experiences as non-native speakers in France or Australia, this book combines subjective personal testimonies with an objective linguistic analysis of the expression of… More

An engaging and intimate collection by an American original More

…framework to analyse impoliteness in corpora. In doing so, it tackles the issue of the methodology of extracting and analysing impoliteness in general corpora in both British English and Turkish. The focus of the extraction and analysis is on informal conversation as a genre in spoken interaction. More

…of authentic speech produced in real time. Drawing on insights from cognitive psychology, neurology and conversation analysis, the author offers a fascinating, easy-to-follow account of why spoken English is structured the way it is. The traditional product-based approach to grammar is given u More

Deals with interactional processes in conversational discourse, and the way they may get "syntacticized" into grammatical constructions. It investigates the link between discourse function and syntactic form, and the ways in which grammatical form is a reflection on communicative function. More

…conversations. These resources contribute to overall coherence and cohesion, which speakers create and maintain interactively as they build on each other's contributions. The study is cross-linguistic, drawing on parallel corpora of task-oriented dialogues between dyads of native speakers of English… More

How do participants display affectivity in social interaction? Based on recordings of everyday conversations, this study offers a fine-grained analysis of how recipients of affect-laden informings deploy sound objects, such as interjections (oh, ooh and ah) and paralinguistic signals (whistle and… More

…notes, and a glossary of the many Hebrew words in the text, this work presents an English translation of the early 18th century anti-Semitic farce Judischer Sprach-Meister ("The Jewish Language Tutor"). It describes a conversation between two Jews on various aspects of Jewish belief and practice. More

Indexes more than 5,600 interviews with nearly 2,500 authors, covering the period 1981-1985. More

Includes articles that examine the notion of clausal subordination based on English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Japanese conversational data. More

Introduces work on features of spoken English, conversational tactics, and high frequency idiomatic vocabulary. This title is designed for learners who want to make effective progress in a short time. It concentrates on developing fluency, refreshing key grammar areas, and extending vocabulary. It… More

Taking the reader behind the cameras, Mary Jane Miller traces the history of television drama on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) English network over four decades. She combines interviews with forty CBC personnel with her own commentary to explore how programs were made and why. More

Capturing the lively modernist milieu of Kenneth Burke's early career in Greenwich Village, where Burke arrived in 1915 fresh from high school in Pittsburgh, this book discovers him as an intellectual apprentice conversing with ""the moderns"". More

The author of the acclaimed Gay Fiction Speaks brings us new interviews with twelve prominent gay writers who have emerged in the last decade. Hear Us Out demonstrates how in recent decades the canon of gay fiction has developed, diversified, and expanded its audience into the mainstream. More

…termination) to the study of a corpus of authentic, naturally-occurring spoken discourses. The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (prosodic) is made up of approximately one million words consisting of four sub-corpora of equal size, namely academic, conversation, business and public. The particip More

…faces a reversal of the problem faced by the original Heliand poet. The poet's purpose in composing the Heliand was to introduce the Gospel story to a population either recently converted to Christianity or in the process of conversion. This text itself comes down to us in two major manuscripts. More

The Class Audio Cassettes contain the listening sections for the Student's Book, recorded in natural, conversational English. The class audio is also available on Audio CDs. More

The Class Audio CDs include all the content from the Listening sections in the Student's Book, recorded in natural, conversational English. More

The Class Audio CDs include all the content from the Listening sections in the Student's Book, recorded in natural, conversational English. More

Tomoko Sakita's study of English language conversational narratives, discourse and the changes in tense employed by speakers explores the ways in which speakers convey and manage feelings and meaning during such exchanges. More

…alternative account of the meaning of English cardinals and the ways in which their interpretation is influenced by other linguistic elements. Bert Bultinck offers the linguist an iridescent history of this often misconstrued topic in contemporary meaning research: the conversational implicatures. More

…that covers major and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. It contains entries on: Attitudes to language, Conversation analysis, English language teaching, Gesture and language, Idioms Language and advertising, Language and new technologies, and Linguistics in schools. More

Class Audio CDs, Intro include the Snapshots, Conversations, Grammar Focus frames, listening activities, Pronunciation practice, Word Power, and Readings sections of the Student's Book, all recorded in natural conversational English. More

Class Audio CDs, Level 2 include the Snapshots, Perspectives, Conversations, Grammar Focus frames, listening activities, Pronunciation practice, Word Power, and Readings sections of the Student's Book, all recorded in natural conversational English. More

Class Audio CDs, Level 1 include the Snapshots, Conversations, Grammar Focus frames, listening activities, Pronunciation practice, Word Power, and Readings sections of the Student's Book, all recorded in natural conversational English. More

This book dialogically links scholarship in rhetoric, composition, and English Studies to the perspectives of faculty outside of English, and by so doing manages to both challenge and expand current thinking about writing pedagogy. More

Class Audio CDs, Level 3 include the Snapshots, Perspectives, Conversations, Grammar Focus frames, listening activities, Pronunciation practice, Word Power, and Readings sections of the Student's Book, all recorded in natural conversational English. More

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This book is a unique Russian-English reference work that provides learners of Russian with well-formed factual conversational statements from over fifty national areas. It is the first Russian-English reference work to arrange complete sentences according to their meaning. More