Analysing Casual Conversation
Analysing Casual Conversation, first published in 1997 by Cassell, develops a systematic model for the analysis and description of casual conversation in English. Working through authentic examples of casual conversations involving participants differing in age, gender, ethnicity and socio-economic class, the authors argue that despite its sometimes aimless appearance and apparently unstructured content, casual conversation is a highly structured activity and plays a critical role in the...
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Originally published in 1997 by Cassell, this text is now made available in paperback in this 2005 reprint. Eggins (English, U. of New South Wales, Australia) and Slade (applied linguistics, U. of Technology, Sydney) use data from casual conversations recorded between 1983 and 1995 in naturally occurring situations to develop a set of analytical techniques for describing language patterns in casual conversation and offer a critical explanation of the role casual conversation plays in our development as socialized beings. They find that despite its sometimes aimless appearance and apparently trivial content, casual conversation is actually a highly structured, functionally motivated, semantic activity. Distributed in the U.S. by the David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
List of FiguresList of TablesList of TextsPrefaceIntroduction: Collecting and transcribing casual conversation11Making meanings in everyday talk62Relevant approaches to analysing casual conversation233The grammar of causal conversation: enacting role relations674The semantics of casual conversation: encoding attitude and humour in casual conversation1165The discourse structure of casual conversation: negotiating support and confrontation1696Genre in casual conversation: telling stories2277Gossip: establishing and maintaining group membership2738Conclusion312References317Index327
