The Lost Art of the Good Schmooze

Diana Boxer

ABC-CLIO

2020

203 páginas

6h 46m

ISBN-13: 9780313383410

Inglês

This book shows how a good schmooze can be turned to social benefit, without the humiliation of "sucking up" or the hypocrisy of the "the hard sell." * Conversational exchanges in social life, family life, workplace talk, educational interaction, and cross-cultural sequences * Excerpts from interviews, media, and ordinary verbal interactions * Examples of personalities schmoozing well, and badly * A glossary of sociolinguistic terminology * A bibliography of sources about discourse analysis