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Who Pushed the Button to Drop the A-bomb? Contexts and Conversation in a Nursing Home.
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Sigman, Stuart J. – 1979
A five-month ethnographic study of conversations in a Philadelphia nursing home revealed some of the rules governing situationally appropriate conversational behavior. The social communicational perspective of the study differed from both psychological and discourse analysis approaches. Analysis of the data indicated that sustained…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Ethnography