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Talk talk talk : the cultural life of everyday conversation

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  • Contributor: Salamensky, S. I.
    Date:
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    2014
    Summary:

    Freud swore by it. Heidegger swore at it. Kierkegaard swore off it. In our everyday lives we can't live without it. It's just talk. Before media, before the Internet there was talk. We have monologues, conversations, chats, those funny little noises - uh-huh, yeah - that pad out exhanges. There are all kinds of talk, too - hearsay, gossip, psychobabble, quotation, talk that isn't quite right (talking animals, demonic possession) and talk that's great art.

    Contents:
    • What Can I Say? (Acknowledgments)
    • What We Talk about when We Talk about Talk (A Word in Edgewise) (Introductory Remarks)
    • Ch. 1. Talking the Talk. 1. Just Talking Tete-a-Tete / Homi Bhabha and Sander L. Gilman. 2. Dangerous Talk: Phenomenology Performativity, Cultural Crisis / S. I. Salamensky
    • Ch. 2. The Arts of Conversation. 3. Dialogue: Antigone, Speech Performance, Power / Judith Butler and Paul Rabinow. 4. Idle Talk: Scarcity and Excess in Literary Language / Alexander Gelley. 5. "Talk to Me": Talk Ethics and Erotics / Carla Kaplan. 6. The Talking Stage: Drama's Mono-Dialogics / Deborah R. Geis and S. I. Salamensky. 7. The Talkie: Early Cinematic Conversations / Tom Conley. 8. Nothing Goes without Saying: The Marx Brothers' Immigrant Talk / Stanley Cavell. 9. Spritzing Skiriting: Standup Talk Strategies / John K. Limon
    • Ch. 3. Culture Klatch. 10. " "(Quotation Marks) / Marjorie Garber. 11. Talking to the Animals / Alec Irwin. 12. Satan and Sybil: Talk, Possession, and Dissociation / Steven Connor. 13. The Talking Cure: Origins of Psychoanalysis / Nicholas Rand. 14. What to Say when You Talk to Yourself: The Tower of Psychobabble / Margaret Bruzelius. 15. Hearsay Booked: Fugitive Talk Brought to Justice / Jan B. Gordon. 16. Talking on the Telephone / Avital Ronell. 17. Techno Talk: E-Mail, the Internet, and Other "Compversations" / Sherry Turkle and S. I. Salamensky.
    Genre:
    Psychology, Social science
    Subject(s): Interpersonal communication | Conversation | Oral communication
    Original Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2001
    Language(s): English