Download or read book Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1996 written by Michael Bruno and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talk is unique and locally produced, crafted by particular social factors for the specific situation of its use. Yet the conduct of such talk is profoundly influenced by, and influential upon, social and cultural processes that occur beyond the temporal and spatial horizon of the occasion of the talk itself.