Place to Stand Politics and Persuasion in a Working-Class Bar

Name: Place to Stand Politics and Persuasion in a Working-Class Bar
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ISBN: 9780195140385

ISBN-10: 0195140389

ISBN-13: 9780195140385

Edition: 2002

Authors: Julie Lindquist

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Linguists have become increasingly interested in examining how class culture is socially constructed and maintained through spoken language. Julie Lindquist's examination of the linguistic ethnography of a working-class bar in Chicago is an important and original contribution to the field. She examines how regular patrons argue about political issues in order to create a group identity centred around political ideology. She also shows how their political arguments are actually a rhetorical genre, one which creates a delicate balance between group solidarity and individual identity, as well as a tenuous and ambivalent sense of class identity. Using a comination of sociolinguistic and…

Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface


A Place to Stand



Rhetorical Practice and the Ethnography of Class Culture



Behind Bar at the Smokehouse



The Smokehouse as Local Institution



Walter, Joe, Arlen, Maggie, and Perry



Smokehouse Themes and Topoi



Argument as a Class Act



Politics and Persuasion at the Smokehouse Inn


Notes


References


Index