Talk and Social Theory: Ecologies of Speaking and Listening in Everyday Life
Book Details
Author(s)Frederick Erickson
PublisherPolity
ISBN / ASIN0745624707
ISBN-139780745624709
AvailabilityUsually ships in 2 to 3 weeks
Sales Rank10,167,101
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Talk and Social Theory will be an essential text for students of sociolinguistics and the analysis of discourse in conversation.
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.

