Reporting Talk: Reported Speech in Interaction (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, Series Number 24) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521824834 ISBN 13: 9780521824835

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Reported speech, whereby we quote the words of others, is used in many different types of interaction. In this revealing study, a team of leading experts explore how reported speech is designed, the actions it is used to perform, and how it fits into the environments in which it is used. Using contemporary techniques of conversation analysis, the authors show how speech is reported in a wide range of contexts - including ordinary conversation, storytelling, news interviews, courtroom trials and medium-sitter interactions. Providing detailed analyses of reported speech in naturallyoccurring talk, the authors examine existing linguistic and sociological studies, and offer some insights into the phenomenon. Bringing together work from the most recent investigations in conversation analysis, this book will be invaluable to all those interested in the study of interaction, in particular how we report the speech of others, and the different forms this can take.

About this title

Book Description:

Reported speech, or the quotation of others' words, is used in many different types of interaction. In this revealing study, a team of leading experts explore how reported speech is designed, the actions it is used to perform, and how it fits into the environments in which it is used.

About the Author:

Rebecca Clift is Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Essex.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521824834
• ISBN 13: 9780521824835
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 306
• Editor: Holt Elizabeth, Clift Rebecca