Small Talk

, by Justine Coupland

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ISBN: 9780582414273 | 058241427X
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Copyright: 6/11/2014

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Preface

List of Contributors

Publisher's Acknowledgements

xii

General Editor's Preface

xiii

Introduction: sociolinguistic perspectives on small talk

(26)

Justine Coupland

Part I Locating small talk theoretically

(106)

Doing collegiality and keeping control at work: small talk in government departments

(30)

Janet Holmes

Institutional identity-work: a better lens

(22)

Karen Tracy

Julie M. Naughton

Mutually captive audiences: small talk and the genre of close-contact service encounters

(26)

Michael McCarthy

Silence and small talk

110

(23)

Adam Jaworski

Part II Procedural aspects: participants' orientations to and organisation of small talk

133

(76)

Calling just to keep in touch: regular and habitualised telephone calls as an environment for small talk

137

(26)

Paul Drew

Kathy Chilton

Talk about the weather: small talk, leisure talk and the travel industry

163

(20)

Nikolas Coupland

Virpi Ylanne-McEwen

Social rituals, formulaic speech and small talk at the supermarket checkout

183

(26)

Koenraad Kuiper

Marie Flindall

Part III Small talk, sociability and social cohesion

209

(56)

Gossipy events at family dinners: negotiating sociability, presence and the moral order

213

(28)

Shoshana Blum-Kulka

Small talk and subversion: female speakers backstage

241

(24)

Jennifer Coates

Part IV Professional and commercial applications

265

(48)

Sociable talk in women's health care contexts: two forms of non-medical talk

269

(19)

Sandy L. Ragan

Small talk in service dialogues: the conversational aspects of transactional telephone talk

288

(25)

Christine Cheepen

Index

313

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