Creating Conversations Performance in Everyday Life

Name: Creating Conversations Performance in Everyday Life
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ISBN: 9781572733305

ISBN-10: 1572733306

ISBN-13: 9781572733305

Edition: 2001

Authors: Keith Sawyer

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Conversation is one of those everyday, commonsense abilities that we can all do without thinking. But paradoxically, understanding how conversation works is one of the most difficult problems for scientists - for example, even after decades of research, computers are still miserable conversationalists. This text explores this paradox: how can conversation be so difficult, and at the same time come to us so naturally.? The answer to the paradox is found in the creativity of everyday conversation. The author, a psychologist and an expert in the sciences of creativity of everyday conversation, shows that the same basic creativity - improvisational creativity - is found in conversation, jazz,…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Hampton Press, Incorporated
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Prologue	p. 1
Scripts and Improvisations	p. 7
Dialogues	p. 43
Audiences	p. 73
Rehearsals	p. 105
Characters	p. 133
Settings	p. 159
Performances	p. 185
Epilogue	p. 211
Notes	p. 221
References	p. 237
Author Index	p. 253
Subject Index	p. 259
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