Restricted to use by people with documented print impairment Read by multiple readers Original version: New York : Routledge, 2001. 260 pages 0415921716 System requirements: PC or compatible, or Macintosh; MP3 player UBC Crane Library
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