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Author
Series
Language power and social process volume 15
Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Pragmatics and beyond volume new ser., 146
Publisher
John Benjamins Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"We all had teachers who scolded us over the use of um, uh-huh, oh, like, and mm-hmm. But as linguist N.J. Enfield reveals in How We Talk, these "bad words" are fundamental to language. Whether we are speaking with the clerk at the store, our boss, or our spouse, language is dependent on things as commonplace as a rising tone of voice, an apparently meaningless word, or a glance-signals so small that we hardly pay them any conscious attention. Nevertheless,...
66) A sociocultural study of intercultural discourse: empirical research on Italian adolescent pupils
Author
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
"Ill people are more than victims of disease or patients of medicine; they are wounded storytellers, Frank argues. People tell stories to make sense of their suffering; when they turn their diseases into stories, they find healing." "Drawing on the work of authors such as Oliver Sacks, Anatole Broyard, Norman Cousins, and Audre Lorde, as well as on the stories of people he has met during years spent among different illness groups, Frank recounts a...
Author
Series
Pragmatics and beyond volume 202
Publisher
John Benjamins Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Series
Pragmatics and beyond volume new ser., 172
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Series
Handbook of pragmatics highlights volume 8
Publisher
John Benjamins Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English