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Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in ordinary conversation. The authors show that speakers build their responses in a variety of ways: the responses can be longer or shorter, repetitive or not, and can be uttered with different intonational 'melodies'. Focusing on four sequence types: responses to questions ('What time are we leaving?' - 'Seven'), responses to informings ('The May Company are sure having a big sale' - 'Are they?'), responses to assessments ('Track walking is so boring. Even with headphones' - 'It is'), and responses to requests ('Please don't tell Adeline' - 'Oh no I won't say anything'), they argue that an interactional approach holds the key to explaining why some types of utterances in English conversation seem to have something 'missing' and others seem overly wordy.

This timely book, written by experts in gerontology and based on recent, solid research debunks the myth that slipping into one's dotage is inevitable for baby boomers. Authors Sandra Cusack and Wend

This reference grammar provides, for the first time, a description of the grammar of Mandarin Chinese, the official spoken language of China and Taiwan, in functional terms, focusing on the role and m

「漢語語法」一書目的是希望從功能的角度描述標準漢語（國語、普通話）的語法，以求了解漢語在溝通的語境中表現的結構特色。我們認為只有透過這種語用的研究，語言的文法才能得到全盤的了解。「漢語語法」係專門為研究標準漢語的學生與教師兩類人士而寫，這些人不一定是語言學家。因此書中一方面力求避免專門性的術語，一方面盡量把書中引介的術語作了非常仔細的界定。本書絕大部分的分析是出自著者的第一手；希望對語言的功能研究

Wappo is an indigenous language, generally regarded as a language isolate, which was once spoken in the Russian River Valley, just north of San Francisco, California. This reference grammar is based o

Charting the Sacred JourneySpiritual Tarot will take you far beyond traditional Tarot card glimpses of the future, and into the deepest recesses of your own mind. Using the three major Tarot decks --