Investigating Intimate Discourse
Clancy, Brian
Intimate discourse ¿ that between couples, family and close friends in private, non-professional settings ¿ lies at the heart of our everyday linguistic experience. It creates and sustains our closest relationships. Using an innovative blend of the community of practice model with a corpus linguistic methodology, Brian Clancy expertly reveals the patterns that characterise the shared linguistic repertoire of intimates. Corpus methods such as f...
