Toward a Theory of Conversational Style [electronic resource] : The Machine-Gun Question / Deborah Tannen.

This paper, part of a larger study, focuses on a single linguistic device, the "machine-gun question," which was used by three of six participants in a Thanksgiving dinner conversation. This conversational device is characteristic of a style that seems to grow out of the need to have other...

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Main Author: Tannen, Deborah
Corporate Author: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1980.
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