Grammar in Everyday Talk - Thompson, Sandra A. (University of California, Santa Barbara) a Fox, Barbara A. (University of Colorado Boulder) a Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth (University of Helsinki)

Drawing on everyday telephone and video interactions, this book surveys how English speakers use grammar to formulate responses in ordinary conversation. Speakers build their responses in a variety of ways: the responses can be longer or shorter, repetitive or not, and can be uttered with different intonational 'melodies'.