Family Talk

by Deborah Tannen, Cynthia Gordon, Shari Kendall

Book Overview

Through everyday talk, individuals forge the ties that can make a family. Family members use language to manage a household, create and maintain relationships, and negotiate and reinforce values and beliefs. The studies gathered in Family Talk are based on a unique research project in which four dual-income American families recorded everything they said for a week. Family Talk extends our understanding of family discourse and of how family members...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195313895
• ISBN13: 9780195313895
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"