Talk and social theory: ecologies of speaking and listening in everyday life/
Erickson, F.
Talk and social theory: ecologies of speaking and listening in everyday life/ Frederick Erickson. - Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004. - xi, 228 p.: ill.; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0745624707 0745624715
Oral communication.
DUCE P95.E75 /
Talk and social theory: ecologies of speaking and listening in everyday life/ Frederick Erickson. - Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004. - xi, 228 p.: ill.; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0745624707 0745624715
Oral communication.
DUCE P95.E75 /