Good to Talk?: Living and Working in a Communication Culture

by Deborah Cameron

It′s good to talk is one of the great clich[ac]es of our time. The benefits of talk to individuals, families and organizations are proclaimed by pop psychologists, television talk show hosts, and management gurus. The importance of talk is talked about endlessly. Good to Talk? is an attempt to look critically at what lies behind this upsurge of concern about talk in our workplaces, classrooms and private lives, and it places these developments in historical context and relates their forms to the broader economic and social changes associated with globalization. The book also poses questions about the social and political implications of talking about talking. Is `communication′ the key to solving the

Genres: Nonfiction, Linguistics

224 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2000

About the author

Deborah Cameron, is a feminist linguist, who holds the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester College, Oxford University. She is mainly interested in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. A large part of her academic research is focused on the relationship of language to gender and sexuality.Cameron wrote the book The Myth of Mars And Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?, published in 2007

Reviews

[Yorkshiresoul · Rating 4 out of 5]

While Cameron's detailed discussion and analysis of discourse within enterprise culture lies outside my normal fields of interest, this book nevertheless added greatly to overall understanding of communication (especially speech related) discourse.