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English Conversation / Amy B.M. Tsui

By: Tsui, Amy B. M [aut].
Series: Describing English Language.Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1995Edition: First edition.Description: 298 pages. ; 24 cm.Content type: txt Media type: n Carrier type: ncISBN: 0194371433.Subject(s): English language -- Rhetoric — Study and teaching -- Foreign students | English language -- Discourse analysis | English language -- Spoken English | English language -- Conversation and phrase books -- Conversation and phrase | Composition (Language arts) -- Study and teaching | Conversation | Discourse analysis | English language -- Conversation and phrase books -- Conversational analysisDDC classification: 428.3 /
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Summary: The describing English Language series provides much-needed descriptions of modern English as it is really used. Taking the revelations of recent research into account, the series aims to meet the challenge of describing linguistic features as they are encountered in authentic contexts of the use in extended stretches of discourse.
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Bibliography: p. 286-292. and index

1.OVERVIEW -- 1.1 Overview -- 2. ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK -- 2.1 The structure of conversation -- 2.2 A taxonomy of discourse acts -- 3. CHARACTERIZATION OF DISCOURSE ACTS : Initiating acts -- 3.1 Elicitations -- 3.2 Requestives -- 3.3 Directives -- 3.4 Informatives -- 4. CHARACTERISATION OF DISCOURSE ACTS : Neglective aspects -- 4.1 Responses -- 4.1 Responses -- 4.1 Responses -- 5.1 Conversational process and patterning

The describing English Language series provides much-needed descriptions of modern English as it is really used. Taking the revelations of recent research into account, the series aims to meet the challenge of describing linguistic features as they are encountered in authentic contexts of the use in extended stretches of discourse.

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