Catalan Communicative Styles: Involvement in a Dinner Table Conversation

Abstract

[EN] This article will discuss the communicative styles of two Cata-lan participants in a cros s-cultural dinner table conversation. The Catalan men present extremely similar stylistic features in their speech which stem from a shared emphasis on rapport and in-volvement, namely cooperative overlapping, expressive paralin-guistic features and ingenious content. Mer an overview of theo-retical approaches to communicative style, three samples from a two-hour-Iong conversation will be analyzed.