Small Talk: Social Functions

By J. Coupland. 2003

161 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory, Human-Computer Interaction

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b746d8015ec2bc8f30530d1a50c1dc58bcca614a

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In Language and Linguistics

1. Hanh thi Nguyen
2. Brandi N. Frisby
3. Matthew M. Martin

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Brandi N. Frisby
2. Hanh thi Nguyen
3. Matthew M. Martin

In Human-Computer Interaction

1. Hanh thi Nguyen
2. Nicole B. Ellison
3. Sarita Yardi Schoenebeck
4. Brandi N. Frisby
5. Matthew M. Martin

Citations in the corpus

• Sharing the small moments: ephemeral social interaction on Snapchat (2016, background): “In this way, the value of Snapchat is comparable to other mundane forms of social interaction, such as small talk (Coupland, 2003), brief interactions with acquaintances and strangers (Sandstrom & Dunn, 2013, 2014), and shared eye contact in public (Wesselmann, Cardoso, Slater, & Williams, 2012).”
• Instructor–Student and Student–Student Rapport in the Classroom (2010, background): “Coupland (2003) argued that building rapport can have positive effects on the classroom environment.”
• Rapport Building in Language Instruction: A Microanalysis of the Multiple Resources in Teacher Talk (2007, background): “Social chat in institutional interaction ‘enacts social cohesiveness, reduces inherent threat values of social contact, and helps to structure social interaction’ (Coupland, 2003).”