Good to Talk? Living and Working in a Communication Culture - Couverture souple

Deborah Cameron

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0761957715 ISBN 13 : 9780761957713

Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

It's good to talk is one of the great clich[ac]es of our time. The benefits of talk to individuals, families and organizations are proclaimed by pop psychologists, television talk show hosts, and management gurus. The importance of talk is talked about endlessly.

`Good to Talk? is an attempt to look critically at what lies behind this upsurge of concern about talk in our workplaces, classrooms and private lives, and it places these developments in historical context and relates their forms to the broader economic and social changes associated with globalization.

The book also poses questions about the social and political implications of talking about talking. Is `communication' the key to solving the problems of modern life? Are the lessons in talking that are offered to us now the ones we most urgently need to learn? Is it time to challenge the prevailing belief about what makes it good to talk?

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Deborah Cameron teaches at Oxford University, where she is Professor of Language and Communication. Her main research interests are in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and the study of gender and sexuality; her previous publications include Working with Spoken Discourse (2001) and Working with Written Discourse (with Ivan Panovic, 2014), Good to Talk? (2000), The Myth of Mars and Venus (2007), and Verbal Hygiene (1995/2012).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761957715
• ISBN 13: 9780761957713
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible