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How We Talk
Author: NJ Enfield
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Retail Price: | $26.99 |
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ISBN: 9781541645028
Format: Paperback
Published: November 2017
Published By: Hachette Australia
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Published: November 2017
Published By: Hachette Australia
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An expert guide to how conversation works, from how we know when to speak to why huh is a universal word.An expert guide to how conversation works, from how we know when to speak to why huh is a universal word.We all had teachers who scolded us over the use of um, uh-huh, oh, like, and mm-hmm. But as linguist N. J. Enfield reveals in HOW WE TALK, these bad words are fundamental to language. Whether we are speaking with the clerk at the store, our boss, or our spouse, language is dependent on things as commonplace as a rising tone of voice, an apparently meaningless word, or a glance-signals so small that we hardly pay them any conscious attention. Nevertheless, they are the essence of how we speak. From the traffic signals of speech to the importance of um, HOW WE TALK revolutionises our understanding of conversation. In the process, Enfield reveals what makes language universally-and uniquely-human.