Talk and Social Theory

<i>Talk and Social Theory</i> will be an essential text for students of sociolinguistics and the analysis of discourse in conversation. <br /> <ul class=”noindent”> <li>introduces the study of ‘talk’ linked to social theory;<br /> </li> <li>develops a new theoretical argument that reviews the relations between local social practices and general societal processes of talk;<br /> </li> <li>the use of everyday examples – a family dinner table, a school classroom, an academic advising session in an community college – enhances the book’s appeal to a non-specialist as well as a specialist audience;<br /> </li> <li>reviews the key theoretical perspectives and conceptual frameworks in social theory and in the sociolinguistic study of talk.<br /> </li> </ul>