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"Freud swore by it. Heidegger swore at it. Kierkegaard swore off it. In our everyday lives we can't live without it. It's just talk. Before media, before the internet there was talk. We have monologues, conversations, chats, those funny little noises - ""uh-huh"", ""yeah"" - that pad out exchanges. There are all kinds of talk, too - hearsay, gossip, psychobabble, quotation; talk that isn't quite right (talking animals, demonic possession); talk that's great art (perhaps Chekhov is just the very best talk there is). Talk, Talk, Talk is a delightful collection of essays by some of the best thinkers - and talkers - of our time. These stellar contributors looks at talk from an exhilarating range of perspectives, among them speech and political power, the Marx Brothers' idea of conversation, the idea of ""talkative"" ethnic identities, Lenny Bruce, daily self-affirmations, technologized talk, the telephone, the talking cure, and e-mail."

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Author:   S.I. Salamensky
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780415921718

ISBN 10:   0415921716
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   14 December 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chat One: Talking the Talk 1. Homi Bhabha and Sander L. Gilman Just Talking: Tete-a-Tete 2. S.I. Salamensky Dangerous Talk: Phenomonology, Performativity, Cultural Crisis Chat Two: The Arts of Conversation 3. Judith Butler and Paul Rabinow Dialogue: Antigone, Speech, Performance, Power 4. Alexander Gelley Idle Talk: Scarcity and Excess in Literary Language 5. Carla Kaplan 'Talk to Me': Talk Ethics and Erotics 6. Deborah R. Geis and S.I. Salamensky The Talking Stage: Drama's Mono-Dialogics 7. Tom Conley The Talkie: Early Cinematic Conversations . Stanley Cavell Nothing Goes Without Saying: The Marx Brothers' Immigrant Talk 9. John K. Limon Spritzing, Skirting: Standup Talk Strategies Chat Three: Culture Klatch 10. Marjorie Garber (Qoutation Marks) 11. Alec Irwin Talking to the Animals 12. Steven Connor Satan and Sybil: Talk, Possession, and Dissociation 13. Nicholas Rand The Talking Cure: Origins of Psychoanalysis14. Margaret Bruzelis What to Say when You Talk to Yourself: The Tower of Psychobabble 15. Jan B. Gordon Hearsay Booked: Fugitive Talk Brought to Justice 16. Avital Ronell Talking on the Telephone 17. Sherry Turkle with S. I. Salamensky Technotalk: E-Mail, the Internet, and Other 'Compversations'

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Talk, Talk, Talk belongs in university libraries and larger public libraries.. <br>-Library Journal, Lisa J. Cihlar, March 1, 2001 <br>

Talk, Talk, Talk belongs in university libraries and larger public libraries.. -Library Journal, Lisa J. Cihlar, March 1, 2001

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S.I. Salamensky earned her PhD at harvard and is currently Visiting Asssitant Profesor in the Department of English at SUNY Albany.

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