Everyday talk : building and reflecting identities /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Guilford Press,
[2002]
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| Series: | Guilford communication series.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Part I : Argument
- Talk and identity : Why is understanding the link between everyday talk and identity so important? ; Logic of conversation : information exchange? ; Interactional meanings and identity-work ; What does identity mean? ; What are discursive practices? ; Linking discursive practices and identities ; Summary
- Two perspectives : Rhetorical perspective ; Cultural perspective ; Relationship between the rhetorical and the cultural perspectives ; Summary
- Part II : Talk's building blocks
- Person-referencing practices : Marital names ; Personal address ; Ethnicity- and race-linked references ; Gender-linked references ; Membership categorization device ; Summary
- Speech acts : Philosophical background ; Links between speech acts and identities ; Especially face-threatening speech acts ; Summary
- Sound of talk : Transcription ; Identity-work of paralinguistic devices ; Meanings of stable features of voice ; Dialect or accent ; Summary
- Language selection : Identity implications of language choice and code switching ; Speaking English and American identity ; Summary
- Part III : Complex discourse practices
- Interaction structures : Adjacency pairs ; Turn taking ; Turn taking in institutional encounters ; Remedial interchange ; Speech community differences ; Summary
- Direct or indirect style : Speech acts ; Other facets of style directness ; Summary
- Narratives : Everyday narratives and their key features ; functions of narratives ; Cultural differences ; Summary
- Stance indicators : Interest and involvement (and their opposites) ; Marked and unmarked forms ; Stance indicator with multiple meanings : deceit? ; Summary
- Part IV : Conclusion
- Final thoughts : Little stuff and big effects ; Multiple communicative goals and dilemmas ; Talk and institutional identity ; Seeing double : a gift, not a distortion ; Communicative effectiveness and phronesis.