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

by Shoshana Blum-Kulka

Book Overview

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: June 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"