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Dinner Talk: Cultural Patterns of Sociability and Socialization in Family Discourse Hardcover - 1997

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 for children through language and for language use. The book demonstrates the way talk at dinner constructs, reflects, and invokes familial, social, and cultural identities and provides social support for easing the passage of children into adult discourse worlds. Family discourse at dinner emerges as a particularly rich site for discursive socialization and a highly meaningful enactment of sociable behavior in culturally patterned ways. Although all the families studied have a commom Eastern European background, Israeli and Jewish American families are shown to differ extensively in their interactional styles, in ways that enact historically different, community-related interpretations of the dialectics of continuity and change. Native Israeli, American Israeli, and Jewish American families differ culturally in the ways they negotiate issues of power, independence, and involvement through various speech activities such as the choice and initiation of topics, conversational story-telling, naming practices, metapragmatic discourse, politeness strategies, and in immigrant, bilingual families, language choice and code switching. Dinner Talk demonstrates the unique interactional style of each of the groups, linking the observed communication patterns to the ideological, sociocultural, and historical contexts of their respective communities. This innovative study of family discourse from a cross-cultural perspective will appeal to students and specialists in sociolinguistics, communication, anthropology, child language, and family and Jewish studies, as well as to all interested in patterns of communication within families.

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  • Title Dinner Talk: Cultural Patterns of Sociability and Socialization in Family Discourse
  • Author Shoshana Blum-Kulka
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 326
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 1997-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780805817751 / 0805817751
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Reading level 1400
  • Library of Congress subjects Dinners and dining, Discourse analysis
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96046362
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306
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