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31. Having noted this, the figures for Anderson's turn-length are worth examining as evidence of change in his conversational behaviour.

32. Pearce's writing style fluctuates between the conversational and the strictly formal.

33. The conversational nature of golf, its cerebral geometry and its childish frustrations carry much untapped potential.

34. It is a way of thinking and expressing oneself in language that is radically different from conversational speech.

35. And then you can shock him, as Donna Shalala did Tuesday night, by speaking fluent conversational Farsi.

36. It turns out that a great deal of our conversational interaction involves the repetitious use of structure.

37. The conversational bridge must be built back in kindergarten, first, and second grades.

38. It was she, far more than her husband, who kept the conversational ball rolling.

39. In flaccid prose Shaftesbury rambles on with an air of affected conversational ease which projects the persona of the patronising aristocrat.

40. As we shall see in Chapter 4, its ideas are echoed in many studies of women's preferred conversational style.

41. Another inspector I know had problems with an innocuous piece written in a mildly conversational style.

42. Jigeehuu said, gently moving us on to more comfortable conversational ground.

43. There are informal ways of expressing the topic, even in conversational discourse.

44. We now turn to the second main area of intonational discourse function, the regulation of conversational behaviour.

45. So, it is a myth that conversational discourse is inevitably symmetrical.

46. These modules may then be organized into what Labov describes as conversational networks.

47. Our argument for the importance of considering individual speaker's topics in conversational discourse would consequently be weaker.

48. Speak in ordinary conversational voice in a large room or hall and only the front row will hear you.

49. There is an assumption that conversational discourse is symmetrical and logical.

50. It is this kind of inference that Grice dubs an implicature, or more properly a conversational implicature.

51. I heard smatterings of laughter, an occasional light conversational swell, but it sounded like most of the guests had departed.

52. How does the discourse analyst decide which discourse subjects to include in the presupposition pool for a particular piece of conversational discourse?

53. Discontent in women interested him; it gave him a conversational opening, a place to plant his seeds of compassion.

54. But what is the source of these maxims of conversational behaviour?

55. Like the popular magazine, the tone of the tax guide is straight forward and conversational.

56. That use of the passive in written language which allows non-attribution of agency is typically absent from conversational speech.

57. Usually rather subdued piping or twittering calls, flocks often keeping up a conversational twitter.

58. We shall examine an extract from conversational discourse containing a longish paratone which illustrates the features just described.

59. What is refreshing is the author's easy,[Sentencedict.com] conversational style.

60. Nim strove to keep his tone conversational and easy.