Books in the Everyday Communication Series series

An analysis of the social origins of karaoke and the dramaturgical characteristics of karaoke events. It visits various karaoke scenes in their natural context, from hotel ballrooms to multi-ethnic, working-class neighbourhoods, especially those of immigrant Chinese.

This text uses conversation analysis methodology to explore the response of family members to eating disorders. The result is a glimpse into the anxieties, wishes, and resistences associated with such disorders. The book concentrates on the problems of bulimia and grandparent caregiving.

This study develops a communication-centred perspective of heritage museums, exploring their socio-cultural role as arenas for the production of collective memory. Also analyzed is the social legitimation and identity formation they produce through the interplay of the local and the global.

Using conversation analysis to explore the nature of argument, asymmetry, and power, this book focuses on the interplay between the structures of participation on talk radio. It demonstrates how conversation analysis may be used to account for power as a feature of institutional discourse.

The study presented in this volume examines how older women's identities are socially constructed and, in particular, how they can be influenced by institutional intervention. The interest in identity production is not only theoretical, but also practical.

This study combines ethnographic, quantitative and qualitative discourse methodologies to provide an analysis of language use in the Brentwood Puerto Rican community. The goal is to show that before conclusions about Spanish in the USA can be reached, communities should be studied individually.