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Item Details
Title:
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SMALL TALK
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By: |
Justine Coupland |
Format: |
Paperback |

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ISBN 10: |
0582414261 |
ISBN 13: |
9780582414266 |
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Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
Pub. date: |
20 June, 2000 |
Series: |
Language In Social Life |
Pages: |
336 |
Description: |
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. |
Synopsis: |
This study 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. Drawing on a range of methodological approaches, including Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics, Interpersonal Communication and Conversation Analysis, the author elevates small talk to a new status, as functionally multifaceted, but central to social interaction as a whole. |
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black & white illustrations |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Longman |
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