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 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.

Produktdetails

• Language In Social Life
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis; Routledge
• 2000.
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• 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

Rezensionen

''All of the essays in this collection emphasize the complexity of small talk, they also stress the important role that small talk has in interpersonal relations particularly in conversatons between strangers and institutional settings.''

Sara Mills, Sheffield Hallam University