FEATURED PROJECTTweet Rupert Murdoch’s second visit to Room 73 in the Royal Court of Justice this week; it was always going to be another interesting day or two in the extensive diary of the Leveson Inquiry. One could have predicted a few juicy sound bites for headlines and the requisite amount of controversy following his [...]
FEATURED PROJECTLord Justice Levy, hear my Ode,
Twas time to write or else implode,
As Murdoch’s hacking tale unfolds,
I’m mulling over dreams untold.
FEATURED PROJECTTweet Have you ever wondered why some of us are superstitious? Why sometimes, we won’t walk under a ladder or cross over a line in the pavement. Why we won’t put new shoes on a table or open an umbrella once indoors? Have you ever wondered just why we find ourselves dreading the sight of [...]
FEATURED PROJECTTweet INTERACTIVE BLOG POST……INTERACTIVE BLOG POST…… Have you ever had one of those days when you’re so busy with umpteen directions to apply the brain, that the simplest tasks seem impossible to carry out? Straightforward decisions which, on a calmer day seem second nature, suddenly become elusive in the brain bank of capabilities…? I had [...]
FEATURED PROJECTTweet Have you ever held your shiny new smart phone; full of widgets and apps, internet, calculators, diaries and games , but been SO frustrated because you couldn’t actually use it for CALLING someone?! Have you ever found yourself in the ridiculous predicament where you’re stranded on a beach, desperate to call a friend because [...]
FEATURED PROJECTTweet Last month a new report hit the tabloid headlines stating “ Poppy Sellers Banned from City Centre”. The report followed a story whereby Royal British Legion Poppy Sellers were to be stopped from selling in Birmingham City Centre during the last few days before Remembrance Sunday this year, due to other charities taking precedence. This [...]
FEATURED PROJECTTweet The Peterborough Chronicle and its continuations are of primary importance within the realms of written English language history. As a descendent of the Anglo-saxon Chronicle it survived the Norman Conquest in its original form but was destroyed by fire in the 1116 blaze at Peterborough Monastery. A copy of the Chronicle was later [...]
Tess Egerton is an author of books, features and articles – currently working on a series of publications including Children’s storybooks and Old English Philology. A graduate of both Journalism and Sociolinguistics at Cardiff University, she has worked for the BBC in TV and radio, and has had a number of articles published by the University Press.
Published works to date include:
“The English Language 1050-1250”
and “Conversational Routine – A Case Study”
Soon to be published via DragonWeb Publishing Ltd:
“The Children’s Fab and Funsome Book of Festival Stories.”
“Old English to Middle English; The Journey Into Contemporary Vernacular”.
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Conversational Routine in Transactional Talk within Intergenerational Interaction: A Case Study
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Intergenerational discourse is, to date, a subject which has been neglected somewhat. This is particularly the case within the realms of interactional analysis. Most people within Western civilisation are aware of a certain respect assumed for the elderly, yet empirical evidence of what facilitates this respect within actual conversation has not yet been fully investigated. Coupland, Coupland and Giles (1991:78) introduced the concept of elderly talk analysis with reference to the use of ‘Painful Self Disclosure’ (PSD) and troubles-telling in interaction particularly between elderly participants and much younger interlocutors. This is one area of Sociolinguistics which caught my attention especially; resulting in a fully empirical study which started in 1994. Please see more on the ‘Linguistics’ page.
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