Further Communication Strategies is the second level of a thoroughly researched and comprehensive course fir intermediate to advanced level students. The series covers the vocabulary, language patterns, and collocation that students need to communicate actively within thirty general topic areas. All new language is recycled throughout the course.
Further Communication Strategies is the second level of a thoroughly researched and comprehensive course fir intermediate to advanced level students. The series covers the vocabulary, language patterns, and collocation that students need to communicate actively within thirty general topic areas. All new language is recycled throughout the course.
You have to talk with a colleague about a fraught situation, but you're worried that they'll yell, or blame you, or shut down. You fear your emotions could block you from a resolution. But you can communicate in a way that's constructive--not combative. Difficult Conversations walks you through: Uncovering the root cause of frictionMaintaining a positive mind-setUntangling the problem togeth…
Spoken interaction is impossible without prosody. Intonation, pitch register, tempo, rhythm, pausing, loudness and voice quality all contribute to the spontaneous negotiation process that is everyday talk. This highly accessible introduction to the prosody and analysis of everyday conversation explains basic concepts and methods of interpretation using a wealth of examples from real-life con…
We live our lives in conversation, building families, societies and civilisations. In over seven thousand languages across the world, the basic infrastructure by which we communicate remains the same. This is the first ever book-length linguistic introduction to conversation analysis (CA), the field that has done more than any other to illuminate the mechanics of interaction. Starting by locati…