This book develops a systematic model for the analyses and description of casual conversation in English. Working through examples of casual conversations, the authors argue that despite its sometimes aimless appearance and apparently unstructured content, casual conversation is a highly structured semantic activity and plays a critical role in the social construction of reality. Drawing on insights from sociological, linguistic and critical semiotic perspectives on interaction, the book aims to equip readers with the analytic skills to describe the different layers of structure, and critical interpretive framework within which to explain the 'social work' that goes on through chat. Casual conversations are identified as everyday verbal interactions in which talk seems to be an end in itself, for example, getting together with friends over coffee or diner and just 'having a chat'. In seeking to understand how language enables us to participate in casual conversation, and the role such interactions play in our formation as social agents, the book progressively introduces successive levels of analytical techniques. Organised from a micro- to macro- focus, the techniques provide a cumulative account of conversational patterns at grammatical, semantic, discourse and contextual levels. At each level, techniques are presented and exemplified on authentic conversational excerpts, involving participants differing in age, gender, ethnicity and socio-economic class. The book begins by distinguishing varieties of everyday talk and briefly reviewing relevant approaches to conversation/discourse analysis. Subsequent chapters detail each of the analytical techniques, beginning with grammatical patterns (types of clauses). At the semantic level, analysis covers attitudinal and intensifying lexis, use of strategies to create intimacy, and the role of humour in casual interactions. The turn-taking structure of casual talk is described through the analysis of 'moves' interactants make (how they act on each other). Finally, the book presents descriptions of some common conversational genres such as story-telling and gossiping. By the end of the book, readers will be in a position to analyze and explain the social purpose and the linguistic characteristics of samples of casual conversation from contexts of relevance to them.

Analyzing Casual Conversation

Literature & Fiction

Eggins, Suzanne

Slade, Diana

History & Criticism

Continuum Intl Pub Group

Analysing Casual Conversation

UNKNO

This new edition of the best-selling An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics explores the social semiotic approach to language most closely associated with the work of Michael Halliday and his colleagues. An approach which views language as a strategic, meaning-making resource, systemic linguistics focuses on the analysis of authentic, everyday texts, and asks both how people use language to make meanings, and how language itself is organized to enable those meanings to be made. The book offers both an overview of systemic theory and illustrations of how systemic techniques can be applied in the analysis of everyday texts. Written for students who may have little or no formal knowledge of linguistics, it covers most of the major concepts in systemic linguistics. In addition, it introduces readers to Halliday's functional grammatical analysis of English clauses, and presents the essentials of the systemic analysis of cohesive patterns in text.

An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Pinter Pub Ltd

New edition of a best-selling introduction to systemic functional linguistics explores the social semiotic approach to language most closely associated with the work of Michael Halliday and his colleagues. An approach which views language as a strategic, meaning-making resource, systemic linguistics focuses on the analysis of authentic, everyday texts, and asks both how people use language to make meanings, and how language itself is organised to enable those meanings to be made. The book offers both an overview of systemic theory and illustrations of how systemic techniques can be applied in the analysis of everyday texts. Written for students who may have little or no formal knowledge of linguistics, it covers most of the major concepts in systemic linguistics. In addition, it introduces readers to Halliday's functional grammatical analysis of English clauses, and presents the essentials of the systemic analysis of cohesive patterns in text. With its systemic theory of the relationship between language and context, systemic linguistics has applications in many fields where an understanding of how language functions to transmit social structure is important, in , for example, language education, cultural studies, stylistics, and women's studies. The book provides an accessible first step into systemics for those who wish to equip themselves with the conceptual and practical tools to analyse and explain how people make meanings with each other in everyday contexts.

Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics: 2nd Edition

Continuum

New edition of a best-selling introduction to systemic functional linguistics explores the social semiotic approach to language most closely associated with the work of Michael Halliday and his colleagues. An approach which views language as a strategic, meaning-making resource, systemic linguistics focuses on the analysis of authentic, everyday texts, and asks both how people use language to make meanings, and how language itself is organised to enable those meanings to be made. The book offers both an overview of systemic theory and illustrations of how systemic techniques can be applied in the analysis of everyday texts. Written for students who may have little or no formal knowledge of linguistics, it covers most of the major concepts in systemic linguistics. In addition, it introduces readers to Halliday's functional grammatical analysis of English clauses, and presents the essentials of the systemic analysis of cohesive patterns in text. With its systemic theory of the relationship between language and context, systemic linguistics has applications in many fields where an understanding of how language functions to transmit social structure is important, in , for example, language education, cultural studies, stylistics, and women's studies. The book provides an accessible first step into systemics for those who wish to equip themselves with the conceptual and practical tools to analyse and explain how people make meanings with each other in everyday contexts.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Analysing Casual Conversation, first published in 1997 by Cassell, develops a systematic model for the analysis and description of casual conversation in English. Working through authentic examples of casual conversations involving participants differing in age, gender, ethnicity and socio-economic class, the authors argue that despite its sometimes aimless appearance and apparently unstructured content, casual conversation is a highly structured activity and plays a critical role in the social construction of reality. Drawing on insights from sociology, linguistics and critical semiotics, the book equips readers with the analytic skills to describe the layers of structure and critical interpretive frameworks to explain the 'social work' that goes on through chat. Suzanne Eggins is Senior Lecturer in the School of English, University of New South Wales, Sydney Diana Slade is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Faculty of Education at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Analysing Casual Conversation (Equinox Textbooks and Surveys in Linguistics)

University of Toronto Press

Systemic-functional linguistics is becoming an increasingly popular approach to language, given the range and thoroughness of the analytical techniques it offers, and the variety of applications it has been demonstrated to have. This text draws on the seminal work of Halliday, Martin and others, to give students from a variety of backgrounds an accessible introduction to the theory and techniques of the systemic approach. This includes language as a semiotic system, levels of context (register and genre), discourse-semantics, and the analysis of cohesion, and the meaning of systemic choice. The volume arises from the author's extensive experience of lecturing on systemic linguistics at the introductory level to a variety of audiences. The materials currently available and used as set texts for such courses include Halliday's "Introduction for Functional Grammar" and Martin's "English Text: System and Structure". However, these texts assume some familiarity with either the systemic approach or basic linguistic concepts, and prove extremely difficult for students to penetrate. "Language as Content" is an introduction for all students of systemic linguistics, English, linguistics and communications, at both undergraduate and masters level.

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Analyzing Casual Conversation

Analysing Casual Conversation

An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics

Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics: 2nd Edition

Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics: 2nd Edition

Analysing Casual Conversation

Analysing Casual Conversation (Equinox Textbooks and Surveys in Linguistics)

An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics