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Author Locke, John L.

Title Eavesdropping : an intimate history / John L. Locke
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 266 pages) : illustrations
Contents Passionate spectators -- Under the leaves -- Open-plan living -- Reluctant domestication -- Privacy, intimacy, and the selves -- Personal power and social control -- Passionate exhibitors -- What will the servants say? -- Virtual eaves -- Intimacy by theft
Summary Eavesdropping is a form of human communication in which the information gained is stolen. It encompasses cheating to get unfair advantage, espionage to uncover secrets, and supervision to maintain power. John Locke considers the biological drive behind this behaviour as well as its social implications and consequences
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-255) and index
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Subject Communication -- Psychological aspects.
Eavesdropping -- History
Eavesdropping -- Psychological aspects
Sociolinguistics.
sociolinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
Communication -- Psychological aspects
Eavesdropping
Sociolinguistics
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191576195
0191576190