Good to Talk?: Living and Working in a Communication Culture
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"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. 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 prevailing beliefs about what makes it good to talk?"--BOOK JACKET.
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In enterprise culture and contemporary service industries, meta-pragmatic theories and technologies of discourse and talk are closely linked to regimes of power in 'communication skills training', 'customer care' and 'quality management'.
“In enterprise culture and contemporary service industries, meta-pragmatic theories and technologies of discourse and talk are closely linked to regimes of power in 'communication skills training', 'customer care' and 'quality management' (Cameron 2000).”
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- Authors
- Cameron, D.
- Corresponding author
- Cameron, Deborah
- ORCID
- Cameron, Deborah
- Venue
- SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Published
- 2000
- OpenAlex
- W580007739
- Cited by
- 504
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 16.85
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Media and Communication Studies
- Social Sciences › Communication › Media, Communication, and Education
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Cultural, Social, and Media Studies
- Keywords
- communication culture, talk, workplace communication, classroom communication, globalization, social change, history of communication
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