Dinner talk
Subtitle: cultural patterns of sociability and socialization in family discourse
By: Shoshana Blum-Kulka.
Publisher: L. Erlbaum Assoc. Publishers
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Mahwah, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Discourse analysis; Communication in the family; Socialization; Dinners and dining; Israelis -- United States -- Language; Communication and culture
Description: In this book, Shoshana Blum-Kulka demonstrates that dinner-table conversations are like holograms, each one a complete, if fuzzy, picture of the diners' culture and their procedures for socializing their children. She has put together 102 such meal-time conversations, to give us a fully configured, sharply focused picture of how children become members of their parents' culture, and how parents' behavior shifts to accommodate new cultural influences.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-294) and indexes.