Drawing on recorded dinner conversations and interviews with native Israeli, American Israeli and Jewish-American middle-class families, this study explores the cultural styles of sociability and socialization in family discourse, demonstrating how talk constructs, invokes and reflects identity.[...]
This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the contribution of multiparty intergenerational talk in a variety of cultures to the development of children's communicative capacities. The book focuses on the complexity of the cultural and interactional contexts in which pragmatic lea[...]