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Jun 24, 2019 · Literary dialogues as models of conv ersation in English Language Teaching. Christian Jones and David Oakey, University of Liverpool. Abstract. This study explores dialogues from a corpus o f 19 ...
Toolan acknowledges the difference between natural and fictional conversation, which is ‘tidied up’, but there are also ‘literary conventions at work governing the fictional representations of talk, so that the rendered text is quite other than a faithful transcription of a natural conversation’ (1989, p. 195).
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Jan 1, 2017 · Through conversation, people share information, form relationships, solve problems, and. accomplish a multitude of everyday goals. From the time we acquire our first words in infancy, we spend ...
mething we tend to take for granted’. When linguists and other social scientists analyse spoken discourse, their aim is to make explicit what normally gets taken for granted; it is also to show what talking accomplishes in p. ople’s lives and in society at large. The reference to ‘linguists and other social scientists’ in the last ...
of it. As an alternative, I propose to take character use seriously, as an essential feature of discourse in general, a feature speakers and listeners actively seek out in utterances. I offer a simple typology of actions in discourse that draws on this understanding, and demonstrate its usefulness for the analysis of a conversation transcript.
Oct 18, 2019 · The extent to which naturally occurring spoken language is similar to and different from literary conversations has been researched within the field of stylistics (e.g. Hughes ; Semino and Short ), but the extent to which conversations in literature could provide a useful model for learners of English as a Foreign Language and English as a Second Language (EFL/ESL) is less clear.
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Dominic Cheetham. 1997, Lingua. This paper makes a brief and exploratory examination of conversation in literature. It highlights some of the features of naturally occurring spoken conversation, and shows conversation in literature to share none of these features. This, of course, is not to argue that conversation in literature is not real ...
