Explaining Conversations

Murray R. Thomas

• 22 december 2011
• 9780765708779

Samenvatting:

Explaining Conversations offers a different way of interpreting people"s social exchanges than has been available in the past. The book is replete with examples of people"s verbal interactions in the form of chats, arguments, debates, and negotiations, both within a culture and across cultures. The volume"s subtitle, A Developmental Social-Exchange Theory, identifies a theme featured in Chapters 2 and 5—the typical pattern by which social-exchange skills evolve over the first two decades of life.