
Creating Conversations
Performance in Everyday Life
Keith Sawyer(Editor)
Hampton Press
Published on 30. April 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-57273-330-5 (ISBN)
Description
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, children's play, and theatre.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cresskill
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57273-330-5 (9781572733305)
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