LINGUIST List 13.2436

Wed Sep 25 2002

Books: Sociolinguistics: Boxer

Editor for this issue: Tomoko Okuno <tomokolinguistlist.org>

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1. paul, Diana Boxer: Sociolinguistics

Title: Applying Sociolinguistics
Subtitle: Domains and face-to-face interaction
Series Title: IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society
			
Publication Year: 2002
			
Publisher: John Benjamins 
 http://www.benjamins.com/
			 
Author: Diana Boxer 

Hardback: ISBN: 1588111970, Pages: xii, 245 pp, Price: USD 81.00
Paperback: ISBN: 1588111989, Pages: xii, 245 pp., Price: USD 35.95

			
Abstract:

Diana Boxer's Applying Sociolinguistics: Domains and Face-to-Face
Interaction is an up-to-date overview of discourse studies in oral
interaction. Its focus is on encounters in the various spheres of
life: family, educational, social, religious, and work, with an
additional chapter on cross-cultural face-to-face interaction in these
domains. Each chapter reviews current research in that specific
domain, with particular attention to methodological issues. For
example, in-depth explanations are offered to the reader on how the
various approaches to studying face-to-face discourse
(e.g. ethnographic, conversational analytic, interactional
sociolinguistic) lend themselves to answering different research
questions. Each chapter also culminates with an original analysis by
the author of face-to-face interaction in that particular
domain. Topics include: nagging in family interaction; bragging and
boasting in workplace interaction; sarcasm in educational interaction;
joking and teasing in social interaction; rite-of-passage discourse in
religious interaction; and gatekeeping discourse in cross-cultural
interaction.

Lingfield(s): Sociolinguistics
			 
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)