TY - BOOK AU - Erickson,F. TI - Talk and social theory: ecologies of speaking and listening in everyday life SN - 0745624707 AV - DUCE P95.E75 PY - 2004/// CY - Cambridge PB - Polity Press KW - Oral communication N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip045/2003013012.html ER -