How We Talk - Couverture rigide

Enfield, NJ

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0465059945 ISBN 13 : 9780465059942

Editeur : Basic Books, 2017

Synopsis

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, they are the essence of how we speak. From the traffic signals of speech to the importance of um, How We Talk revolutionises our understanding of conversation. In the process, Enfield reveals what makes language universally-and uniquely-human.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

N. J. Enfield is a professor and the chair of linguistics at the University of Sydney, and a research associate in the Language and Cognition Group at the Max Planck Institute. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0465059945
• ISBN 13: 9780465059942
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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