Telephone Conversation

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Indiana University Press, 1992 - 247 pages

"... Hopper's aim is to begin to reveal to us the complex world of telephone conversation, and that is what he succeeds marvellously in doing." --Discourse & Society

"A guided tour through the interior world of phone interactions, Telephone Conversation is a playful, often poetic excursion into the dance-like qualities of language as and in technology." --Wayne A. Beach

" Telephone Conversation is an engagingly written book, peppered with snippets of telephone chat that enable readers to see the extraordinariness of ordinary talk." --Quarterly Journal of Speech

"... the first comprehensive work on telephone interaction... Written in a lucid, often poetic manner, it keeps the reader's interest to the end." --Anthropological Linguistics

Voice mail, answering machines, car phones, call-waiting, call-forwarding--it seems the telephone at times controls our lives. Here Robert Hopper eavesdrops on the sounds of telephone conversation, the most important yet least examined province of contemporary communication and an important aspect of contemporary life.

 

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Table des matières

Speech Acts as Sequences
13
OPENINGS
27
Circumstances Relationships Cultures
71
Acquaintances Initial Inquiries
77
Telephone Openings and Relationship States
83
Timing of 100 Turn Beginnings
107
Distribution of Pauses by Transition Relevance
109
Percentage of Pauses by Speaker Change and Transition Relevance
110
Floor Access as Power
120
Maze of Open Wires 4
127
TRAJECTORIES
130
Eschers Drawing Hands
167
The Honest Answering Machine
200
Transcribing Conventions
223
References
235
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Robert Hopper
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Robert Hopper
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Expressions et termes fréquents

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À propos de l'auteur (1992)

ROBERT HOPPER is Charles Sapp Centennial Professor of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include Children Learning Language: Between You and Me and Human Message Systems.

Informations bibliographiques

TitreTelephone Conversation
Volume 724 de A Midland book
AuteurRobert Hopper
Éditionillustrée
ÉditeurIndiana University Press, 1992
ISBN025320724X, 9780253207241
Longueur247 pages
  
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