Reporting Talk - Reported Speech in Interaction

Klappentext A study of reported speech - the quoting of others' words - in different types of interaction. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Rebecca Clift and Elizabeth Holt; 2. Interactive footing Charles Goodwin; 3. 'I'm eyeing your chop up mind': reporting and enacting Elizabeth Holt; 4. Assessing and accounting Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen; 5. Getting there first: non-narrative reported speech in interaction Rebecca Clift; 6. Reported thought in complaint stories Markku Haakana; 7. Designing contexts for reporting tactical talk John Rae and Joanne Kerby; 8. Active voicing in court Renata Galatolo; 9. Speaking on behalf of the public in broadcast news interviews Steven E. Clayman; 10. The dead in service of the living Robin Wooffit.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Holt, Elizabeth (University of Huddersfield) Clift Holt, Elizabeth Clift Holt
• Assisted by: Rebecca Clift (Editor), Clift Rebecca (Editor), Elizabeth Holt (Editor), Holt Elizabeth (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521154567
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15456-7
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Studies in Interactional Socio; Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology