Language and Social Identity

Name: Language and Social Identity
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ISBN: 9780521288972

ISBN-10: 0521288975

ISBN-13: 9780521288972

Edition: 2nd 1982

Authors: John J. Gumperz, Paul Drew, Marjorie Harness Goodwin, Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Schiffrin

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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…

Book details

List price: $75.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/20/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


A note on conventions



Introduction: language and the communication of social identity




Thematic structure and progression in discourse




Discovering connections




Inscrutability revisited




Negotiating interpretations in interethnic settings




Strategies and counterstrategies in the use of yes-no questions in discourse




Negotiations of language choice in Montreal




Performance and ethnic style in job interviews




Interethnic communication in committee negotiations




Fact and inference in courtroom testimony




A cultural approach to male-female miscommunication




Ethnic style in male-female conversation




Language and disadvanage: the hidden process



Bibliography


Subject index


Author index