The small conference: An innovation in communication (Publications of the International Social Science Council)

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. Preface and acknowledgements I. THE CONFERENCE PROCESS 1. The conference as a new social invention 2. The small conference as a specific historical development 3. Participants and styles of participation 4. Conference materials 5. Conference arrangements 6. Conferences that cross nationality and language barriers II. STILL PHOTOGRAPHY AS A METHOD OF CONFERENCE ANALYSIS 7. Introduction 8. Conference I Discussion and photographs 9. Conference II Discussion and photographs 10. Conference III Discussion and photographs Epilogue Appendix. Background of this study Bibliography