Description
Why do doctors sound so professional and competent, even when you are sure that they do not really know what they're talking about? How do some people manage to take control of any conversation? What similarities are there between the language that market traders use to sell dodgy goods and the language politicians use to woo potential voters?All Talk is a book about how language is used in everyday life words and their hidden meanings, questions and answers, insults and replies, chat-up lines, Irish jokes, sales patter, slips of the tongue, lies, casual talk, professional talk, political talk, dinner party talk, interview talk.
Some Reviews of Geoffrey Beattie
Survivors of Steel City
This book is a splendid example of sociology as it often could be but rarely is: imaginatively presented, lively, well-written and easy to read, but without ever losing integrity of purpose, or its capacity to illuminate and inform' Tony Parker New Society
'Beattie's book is engrossing' Nigel Fountain The Listener
ISBN:9780297794950
