LINGUIST List 13.3325
Tue Dec 17 2002
Books: Sociolinguistics: Lindquist
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Message 1: A Place to Stand: Politics and Persuasion...
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:27:37 +0000
From: bartonm <bartonmoup-usa.org>
Subject: A Place to Stand: Politics and Persuasion...
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)