Publications

Publication details [#26766]

Blum-Kulka, Shoshana. 1994. The dynamics of family dinner talk: Cultural contexts for children's passages to adult discourse. Research on Language and Social Interaction 27 (1) : 1–50.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult-child conversation | dinner conversation | family conversation | language and culture

Place, Publisher

Lawrence Erlbaum

ISBN

0835-1813

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This comparative study of Jewish and Jewish-American urban middle-class families' adult-child dinner-table conversations, brings into focus dinner talk dynamics, with a special concern for cultural variation and children's voices.