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oup-usa.org>Title: A Place to Stand Subtitle: Politics and Persuasion in a Working-Class Bar Series Title: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics Publication Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford University Press http://www.oup-usa.org/ Book URL: http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195140370.html Author: Julie Lindquist, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg Hardback: ISBN: 0195140370, Pages: 216 pp, Price: $ 65.00 Paperback: ISBN: 0195140389, Pages: 216 pp, Price: $ 29.95 Abstract: 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 centered 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. Lingfield(s): Sociolinguistics Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue