Justine Coupland

Small Talk

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Produktbeschreibung

Justine Coupland presents a new perspective on small talk and demonstrates how, even though it has often been derided, it plays a crucial role in everyday communication.

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This book presents a new perspective on small talk and its crucial role in everyday communication. The new approach presented here is supported by analyses of interactional data in specific settings - private and public, face-to-face and telephone talk. They vary from gossip at the family dinner table and intimate 'keeping in touch' phone conversations, to interpersonally-focused talk in institutional settings, such as the government office and the university research seminar.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9780582414266
• ISBN-10: 0582414261
• Artikelnr.: 24347144

Autorenporträt

Justine Coupland

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1: LOCATING SMALL TALK THEORETICALLY 1. Doing collegiality and keeping
control at work: small talk in government departmentsJanet Holmes 2.
Institutional identity work: a better lensKaren Tracy and Julie M. Naughton
3. Mutually captive audiences: small talk and the genre of close-contact
service encountersMichael McCarthy 4. Silence and small talkAdam Jaworski
PART 2: PROCEDURAL ASPECTS: PARTICIPANTS ORIENTATIONS TO AND ORGANISATION
OF SMALL TALK 5. Calling just to keep in touch: regular and habitualised
telephone calls as an environment for small talkPaul Drew and Kathy Chilton
6. Talk about the weather: small talk, leissure talk and the travel
industryNikolas Coupland adn Virpi Ylanne-McEwan 7. Social rituals,
formulaic speech and small talk at the supermarket checkoutKoenraad Kuiper
and Marie Findall PART 3: SMALL TALK, SOCIABILITY AND SOCIAL COHESION 8.
Gossipy events at family dinners: negotiating sociability, presence and the
moral orderShoshana Blum-Kulka 9. Small talk and subversion: female
speakers backstageJennifer Coates PART 4: PROFESSIONAL AND COMMERCIAL
APPLICATIONS 10. Sociable talk in women's health care contexts: two forms
of non-medical talkSandy L. Ragan 11. Small talk in service dialogues: the
conversational aspects of transactional telephone talkChristine Cheepen