Format:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 272 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780511620836
Series Statement:
Studies in interactional sociolinguistics 2
Content:
Throughout Western society there are now strong pressures for social and racial integration but, in spite of these, recent experience has shown that greater intergroup contact can actually reinforce social distinctions and ethnic stereotypes. The studies collected here examine, from a broad sociological perspective, the sorts of face-to-face verbal exchange that are characteristic of industrial societies, and the volume as a whole pointedly demonstrates the role played by communicative phenomena in establishing and reinforcing social identity. The method of analysis that has been adopted enables the authors to reveal and examine a centrally important but hitherto little discussed conversational mechanism: the subconscious processes of inference that result from situational factors, social presuppositions and discourse conventions. The theory of conversation and the method of analysis that inform the author's approach are discussed in the first two chapters, and the case studies themselves examine interviews, counselling sessions and similar formal exchanges involving contacts between a wide range of different speakers: South Asians, West Indians and native English speakers in Britain; English natives and Chinese in South-East Asia; Afro-Americans, Asians and native English speakers in the United States; and English and French speakers in Canada. The volume will be of importance to linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, and others with a professional interest in communication, and its findings will have far-reaching applications in industrial and community relations and in educational practice.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Introduction : Language and the communication of social identity
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Thematic structure and progression in discourse
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Discovering connections
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Inscrutability revisited
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Negotiating interpretations in interethnic settings
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Strategies and counterstrategies in the use of yes-no questions in discourse
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Negotiations of language choice in Montreal
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Performance and ethnic style in job interviews
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Interethnic communication in committee negotiations
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Fact and inference in courtroom testimony
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A cultural approach to male-female miscommunication
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Ethnic style in male-female conversation
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Language and disadvantage : the hidden process
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521246927
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521288972
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521246927
Additional Edition:
Elektronische Reproduktion von Language and social identity Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1982 ISBN 052124692X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521288975
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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Ethnology
Keywords:
Kommunikation
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Gespräch
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Soziologie
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Kulturkontakt
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Soziolinguistik
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Sprachliche Minderheit
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Soziale Integration
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Soziale Identität
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511620836
URL:
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Author information:
Gumperz, John Joseph 1922-2013
