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Talk and Social Theory: Ecologies of Speaking and Listening in Everyday Life

ISBN: 978-0-7456-2470-9
Hardcover
232 pages
May 2004, Polity
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  • 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.
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