Talking Voices: Repetition, Dialogue and Imagery in Conversational DiscourseA radical contribution to both linguistic and literary analysis, Talking Voices shows how conversation provides the source for linguistic strategies that are shaped and elaborated in literary discourse and other spoken and written, public and private genres. She explores the scenic and musical basis of both textual meaning and interpersonal involvement in discourse. Repetition establishes rhythm and meaning by patterns of constants and contrasts. Dialogue and imagery create scenes peopled by characters in relation to each other, doing things that are culturally and personally recognizable and meaningful. Our understanding of how discourse works--whether it is spontaneously uttered by conversationalists or carefully structured by the novelist or public speaker--is significantly advanced by this book. |
Contents
Involvement in discourse | 9 |
Sound and sense in discourse | 14 |
Involvement strategies | 17 |
Scenes and music in creating involvement | 29 |
Repetition in conversation toward a poetics of talk | 36 |
Repetition in discourse | 46 |
Functions of repetition in conversation | 47 |
Repetition and variation in conversation | 53 |
Imagining worlds imagery and detail in conversation and other genres | 134 |
The role of details and images in creating involvement | 135 |
Details in conversation | 136 |
Images and details in narrative | 138 |
Nonnarrative or quasinarrative conversational discourse | 143 |
Rapport through telling details | 147 |
The intimacy of details | 149 |
Spoken literary discourse | 150 |
Examples of functions of repetition | 59 |
The range of repetition in a segment of conversation | 71 |
Individual and cultural differences | 78 |
Other genres | 80 |
The automaticity of repetition | 87 |
The drive to imitate | 93 |
Conclusion | 96 |
Oh talking voice that is so sweet constructing dialogue in conversation | 98 |
Reported speech and dialogue | 99 |
Dialogue in storytelling | 102 |
Reported criticism in conversation | 105 |
Reported speech is constructed dialogue | 110 |
Constructed dialogue in a conversational narrative | 119 |
Modern Greek stories | 124 |
Brazilian narrative | 128 |
Dialogue in writers conversation | 131 |
Conclusion | 133 |
Written discourse | 153 |
Highinvolvement writing | 159 |
When details dont work or work for ill | 161 |
Conclusion | 165 |
Involvement strategies in consort literary nonfiction and political oratory | 167 |
Literary nonfiction | 168 |
Speaking and writing with involvement | 172 |
Involvement in political oratory | 173 |
Conclusion | 194 |
Afterword Toward a humanistic linguistics | 196 |
Sources of examples | 198 |
Transcription conventions | 202 |
Notes | 205 |
List of references | 220 |
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