This accessible satellite textbook in the Routledge Intertext series offers students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis of conversation. Written

Sometimes people are so busy communicating they don't listen to each other. "Talk Language" tells you how to understand what people are really saying, and why.

Face-to-face conversation between two or more people is a universal form, and perhaps the basic form, of social interaction. It is the primary site of social in

This compelling book provides psychotherapists with evidence-based strategies for harnessing the power of language to free clients from life-constricting patter

From the author of New York Times bestseller You're Wearing That? this bestselling classic work draws upon groundbreaking research by an acclaimed sociolinguist