Publications

Publication details [#42666]

Hepburn, Alexa and Elizabeth H. Stokoe. 2005. 'You can hear a lot through the walls': Noise formulations in neighbour complaints. Discourse & Society 16 (5) : 647–673.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | institutional context | psychology | telephone conversation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper deals with noise complaints as played out in neighbour dispute mediation and neighbours' calls to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) helpline. The focus lies on the salience of 'noise' description and its formulation as a concern of participants.