John J. Gumperz Paul Drew Marjorie Harness Goodwin
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 fundamental research on communication from a wide variety of disciplines - linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology and non-verbal communication - and develops an original and broadly based theory of conversational inference which shows how verbal communication can serve either between...
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 ...
John J. Gumperz Paul Drew Marjorie Harness Goodwin
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 sociological perspective, the sorts of face-to-face verbal exchange that are characteristic of industrial societies, and the volume as a whole pointedly demonstrates the role played by communicative phenomena in establishing and reinforcing social identity. The method of analysis that has been adopted...
Throughout Western society there are now strong pressures for social and racial integration but, in spite of these, recent experience has shown that g...
Directions in Sociolinguistics is a now classic collection of pioneering essays by leading sociolinguists. It is published here for the first time in paperback and incorporates an extensive new bibliography.
Directions in Sociolinguistics is a now classic collection of pioneering essays by leading sociolinguists. It is published here for the first t...