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Blum-Kulka, Shoshana. 1997. Dinner Talk. Cultural Patterns of Sociability and Socialization in Family Discourse. Routledge. xi + 306 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
ISBN
0-8058-177-X

Annotation

This book is patterned around the two major social functions of dinnertime interaction: mutual social bonding (sociability) and monitoring of the child's evolution towards adulthood (socialization). Each chapter discusses an aspect of family discourse such as participation frameworks, topic management, narratives, politeness and speech acts, metapragmatics and bilingual socialization.

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