Dinner Talk: Cultural Patterns of Sociability and Socialization in Family Discourse

by Shoshana Blum-Kulka

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Dinner Talk draws upon the recorded dinner conversations of, and extensive interviews with, native Israeli, American Israeli, and Jewish American middle-class families to explore the cultural styles of sociability and socialization in family discourse. The thesis developed is that family dinners in Western middle-class homes fulfill important functions of sociability for all participants and, at the same time, serve as crucial sites of socialization...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:080581776X

ISBN13:9780805817768

Release Date:May 1997

Publisher:Routledge

Length:326 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Language Arts Psychology Social Science Social Sciences

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