In Conversation with Jonah: Conversation Analysis, Literary Criticism and the Book of Jonah

by Raymond F. Person Jr.

Book Overview

The author analyses the various conversations that occur between the characters in the Jonah narrative and the 'conversation' that occurs between the text and its readers. The study opens with an introduction to the field of conversation analysis, with a focus on one feature of conversation analysis-that a fundamental structure in the organization of language is adjacency pairs (for example, question/answer and invitation/refusal). Person notes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567425932
• ISBN13: 9780567425935
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"