Bestel Nu Discourse Strategies – John J. Gumperz

To understand the role of language in public life and the social process in general, we need first a closer understanding of how linguistic knowledge and social factors interact in discourse interpretation. This volume is a major advance towards that understanding. Professor Gumperz here synthesizes fundamental research on communication from a wide variety of disciplines – linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology and non-verbal communication – and develops an original and broadly based theory of conversa…