30.3346, Books: Skyping the Family: Harper, Watson, Licoppe (eds.)

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Subject: 30.3346, Books: Skyping the Family: Harper, Watson, Licoppe (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:44:28
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Skyping the Family: Harper, Watson, Licoppe (eds.)

 


Title: Skyping the Family 
Subtitle: Interpersonal video communication and domestic life 
Series Title: Benjamins Current Topics 103  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.103 


Editor: Richard Harper
Editor: Rod Watson
Editor: Christian Licoppe

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262240 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 0
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203496 Pages: 177 Price: U.S. $ 128.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203496 Pages: 177 Price: U.K. £ 71.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203496 Pages: 177 Price: Europe EURO 90.10


Abstract:

This collection is one of the first in-depth studies of video calling in
family and domestic life. It explores the reasons that people themselves
provide to explain their video calling, investigates how these reasons make
that calling accountable and how, in turn, these reasons come to be things
talked about in the calls themselves. The research shows how video calling is
part of the currency of contemporary family affection: such calls are not just
about keeping in touch, they are a way of loving too; and they are sometimes a
way of fighting as well. 'Skyping' or 'Facetiming' might be frequent and can
seem mundane – just a question of routine – but what they entail is a measure
of important things to families.    
                                                                              
                                   This makes this collection of interest to
anyone concerned with family life and the evolving ways in which technology
has a role in it.

Originally published as a special issue of "Pragmatics" 27:3 (2017).
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics


Written In: English  (eng)

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