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Reaction Paper On �Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk Among Friends�

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    Title: Reaction paper on “Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk A mong Friends” Deborah Tannen Name: Professor name: Subject: Date: 1. After reading the selection you have chosen, think about either your own situation that reflects the subject of the reading or about situations with which you are familiar, or both. You should not use full names or real people, please! It is preferable to give people aliases rather than use their names. Answer: I chose” Conversational Style: Analyzing Talk among Friends” by Deborah Tannen.It is a very interesting book .I guess everyone can relate to this book. It talks about conversational style. It is an exercise which tries to give a framework for scholars who are interested in analyzing language of everyday interaction and to show the insights of everyday communication. 'Conversational style’ is a tool that one use s for conversing. It refers to something that is both individual and subtle. Every individual has their own conversational style. We should no confuse it with dialect as dialect is a language variety spoken by a group of people in a certain region with a particular pronunciation and grammar. Conversational style as described by the author is not the style in the sense that it is extra ordinary /fancy or that it is dull and plain but it is the characteristics or the tools that we use in our daily conversation with people and it can differ from one situation to the other . Anything that we say has a style , it depicts whether we are saying it jokingly, angrily, friendly or rudely. We should be able to make the other person understand what we meant to say. Being able to comprehend our thoughts in a right way is the key to a good conversation. The way our intentions our communicated are the features of the communication style, it includes the to ne, the pace, the pauses that we make in between our speech.

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