Misunderstanding in Social Life: Discourse Approaches to Problematic Talk

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	Language In Social Life

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	Semantics (Linguistics)
	Sociolinguistics (Linguistics)

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Juliane House, Professor of Linguistics, University of Hamburg
Gabriele Kasper, Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
Steven Ross, Professor in the School of Policy Study, Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda/Kobe, Japan

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2003
Format: Paper; 272 pp

ISBN-10: 058238222X
ISBN-13: 9780582382220

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This volume provides a variety of theoretical and analytical perspectives on misunderstanding within different types of spoken interaction/discourse - such as in news media interviews, legal and medical situations, communication by second language learners and between different cultural and social groups, and mistakes in everyday conversation.