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Publication details [#32176]

Gaudio, Rudolf P. 2003. Coffeetalk: Starbucks™ and the commercialization of casual conversation. Language in Society 32 (5) : 659–691.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | culture | economics | ideology | sociolinguistics

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This article examines the sociolinguistic practice of “coffeetalk” in the US and the impact of political, economic, and cultural-ideological processes of global capitalism on seemingly ordinary conversational practices.