Dinner talk : 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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Mahwah, NJ :
L. Erlbaum Assoc. Publishers,
1997
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| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 306 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| ISBN: | 0805817751 (alk. paper) 080581776X (pbk. : alk. paper) |