Discourse strategies / John J. Gumperz.
To understand the role of language in public life and the social process in general, we need first a closer understanding of how linguistic knowledge and social factors interact in discourse interpretation. This volume is a major advance towards that understanding. Professor Gumperz here synthesizes...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1982.
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| Series: | Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ;
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core Sample text |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Sociolinguistics of interpersonal communication
- Social network and language shift
- Conversational code switching
- Prosody in conversation
- Contextualization conventions
- Socio-cultural knowledge in conversational inference
- Interethnic communication
- Ethnic style in political rhetoric
- Postscript.