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| Author: | Gaudio, R.P. |
| Title: | Coffeetalk: Starbucks and the commercialization of casual conversation |
| Journal: | Language in Society
2003 : NOV, VOL. 32:5, p. 659-691 |
| Index terms: | Culture Linguistics USA |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | It is examined in this article, how so-called ordinary or casual conversational practices in the contemporary USA are constrained and structured in terms of where, when, how and with whom people choose are able to interact socially. The focus of analysis is the middle-class sociolinguistic practice of "coffeetalk" - a term borrowed from U.S. popular culture to signal the naturalized conflation of conversation with the commercialized consumption of coffee, space and other commodities. |
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