Deborah TannenThinkers

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Cooperation is a means of managing conflict.

Discourse analysis is the analysis of language beyond the sentence.

Interruption is, in conversation, a matter of dominance, control, and showing a lack of interest or support.

Interruption is not a mechanical criterion for determining on a tape whether two voices were speaking at once. As linguist adrian bennett states, it is 'a matter of interpretation regarding individuals' rights and obligations'.

The Press frames everything in terms of conflict because, under time pressure, the reporter is lured to established, conventionalized ways of expressing ideas in the absence of leisure to think up entirely new ones.

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