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Dinner Talk draws upon the recorded dinner conversations of, and extensive interviews with, native Israeli, American Israeli, and Jewish American middle-class families to explore the cultural styles of sociability and socialization in family discourse. The thesis developed is that family dinners in Western middle-class homes fulfill important functions of sociability for all participants and, at the same time, serve as crucial sites of socialization for children through language and for language use. [publisher's description]

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Communication and culture --- Communication in families --- Dinners and dining --- Discourse analysis --- Israelis --- Socialization --- Child socialization --- Children --- Enculturation --- Social education --- Education --- Sociology --- Ethnology --- Jews --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Banquets --- Dining --- Eating --- Meals --- Caterers and catering --- Entertaining --- Etiquette --- Cooking --- Gastronomy --- Menus --- Table --- Communication in the family --- Family communication --- Families --- Culture and communication --- Culture --- Language