Tsui Amy B.M. (徐碧美). English Conversation / 英语会话

Oxford University Press, 2000. — xviii, 298 pages. — (Describing English Language). — ISBN: 7-81046-857-X.Специальное издание на английском языке для продажи в Китайской народной республике.This edition of English Conversation is published by arrangement with Oxford University Press.
Licensed for sale in People's Republic of China only.In this book Amy Tsui subjects patterns of conversational interaction to detailed scrutiny. Using authentic, naturally-occurring data as a source for examples, she offers refinements and extensions to well-developed descriptive frameworks for the analysis of conversational data, and establishes in the process important new insights into the sequencing of patterns of interaction. Dr Tsui is distrustful of traditions in the analysis of conversation which prioritize the negotiable, interpreted, and participant-centred nature of events; instead she is deeply committed to a view of conversation as rule-governed and specifiable. Her study presents a range of carefully-formulated arguments and a wider range still of replicable analyses in support of this view of conversation. It is to her credit that the analyses she provides are sufficiently explicit to encourage further refinement and development in an area of vital importance to the description of longer stretches of text, the teaching of the spoken language, and to linguistic understanding in general.