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Hardcover How We Talk: The Inner Workings of Conversation Book

ISBN: 0465059945

ISBN13: 9780465059942

How We Talk: The Inner Workings of Conversation

An expert guide to how conversation works, from how we know when to speak to why huh is a universal word

We all had teachers who scolded us over the use of um, uh-huh, oh, like, and mm-hmm. But as linguist N. J. Enfield reveals in How We Talk, these "bad words" are fundamental to language.Whether we are speaking with the clerk at the store, our boss, or our spouse, language is dependent...

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