Talk and Social Theory: Ecologies of Speaking and Listening in Everyday Life
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Talk and Social Theory will be an essential text for students of sociolinguistics and the analysis of discourse in conversation. introduces the study of 'talk' linked to social theory; develops a new theoretical argument that reviews the relations between local social practices and general societal processes of talk; the use of everyday examples - a family dinner table, a school classroom, an academic advising session in an community college - enhances the book's appeal to a non-specialist as well as a specialist audience; reviews the key theoretical perspectives and conceptual frameworks in social theory and in the sociolinguistic study of talk.
Details
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-13
- 9780745624709
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Published
- May 21, 2004
- Pages
- 232
- Weight
- 17 oz
- Subject
- Social Science
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