Dinner talk: cultural patterns of sociability and socialization in family discourse

In this book, Shoshana Blum-Kulka demonstrates that dinner-table conversations are like holograms, each one a complete, if fuzzy, picture of the diners' culture and their procedures for socializing their children. She has put together 102 such meal-time conversations, to give us a fully configu...

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Main Author: Blum-Kulka, Shoshana (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Mahwah, NJ [u.a.] Erlbaum 1997
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:In this book, Shoshana Blum-Kulka demonstrates that dinner-table conversations are like holograms, each one a complete, if fuzzy, picture of the diners' culture and their procedures for socializing their children. She has put together 102 such meal-time conversations, to give us a fully configured, sharply focused picture of how children become members of their parents' culture, and how parents' behavior shifts to accommodate new cultural influences.
Physical Description:XI, 306 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:0805817751

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