Talk and Social Theory: Ecologies of Speaking and Listening in Everyday LifeTalk and Social Theory will be an essential text for students of sociolinguistics and the analysis of discourse in conversation. introduces the study of 'talk' linked to social theory; develops a new theoretical argument that reviews the relations between local social practices and general societal processes of talk; the use of everyday examples a family dinner table, a school classroom, an academic advising session in an community college enhances