Language and social identity

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 sociolog...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Gumperz, John J. (John Joseph), 1922-2013 (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press 1982.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 2.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Language and the communication of social identity / John J. Gumperz and Jenny Cook-Gumperz
  • Thematic structure and progression in discourse / John J. Gumperz, Gurinder Aulakh, and Hannah Kaltman
  • Discovering connections / Arpita Mishra
  • Inscrutability revisited / Linda Wai Ling Young
  • Negotiating interpretations in interethnic settings / Mark Hansell and Cheryl Seabrook Ajirotutu
  • Strategies and counterstrategies in the use of yes-no questions in discourse / Adrian Bennett
  • Negotiations of language choice in Montreal / Monica S. Heller
  • Performance and ethnic style in job interviews / F. Niyi Akinnaso and Cheryl Seabrook Ajirotutu
  • Interethnic communication in committee negotiations / John J. Gumperz and Jenny Cook-Gumperz
  • Fact and inference in courtroom testimony / John J. Gumperz
  • A cultural approach to male-female miscommunication / Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A. Borker
  • Ethnic style in male-female conversation / Deborah Tannen
  • Language and disadvantage : the hidden process / T.C. Jupp, Celia Roberts, and Jenny Cook-Gumperz.