Speakers, Listeners and Communication

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Speakers, Listeners and Communication is written by Gillian Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521587050 (ISBN 10) and 9780521587051 (ISBN 13).

In this book Gillian Brown draws on a wide range of examples of discourse analysis to explore the ways in which speakers and listeners use language collaboratively to talk about what they can see in front of them and about a series of events. She examines the conditions under which communication is successful, and the conditions under which it sometimes fails. The focus of her attention is upon the listener's role, as the listener tries to make sense of what the speaker says in a highly constrained context; her cognitive/pragmatic approach to discourse analysis both complements and challenges the sociological/anthropological perspectives on the subject which currently predominate. Gillian Brown is co-author of the well-known textbook Discourse Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 1983).