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Schiffrin, Deborah. 1984. Jewish argument as sociability. Language in Society 13 : 311–335.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
cooperation | culture | dispute | functions of language | jew | social norm
Journal WWW
journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

On the consequences of the observation that argumentative talk in Jewish communities (for instance) can have sociable functions, for some current views on conversational cooperation, and for the cultural relativity of norms of evaluation concerning disputes.