Discourse Strategies - POD TITLE

Klappentext The volume will be of central interest to anyone concerned with communication! whether from a more academic viewpoint or as professionals working! for example! in the fields of interethnic or industrial relations. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; A note on conventions; 1. Introduction; 2. The sociolinguistics of interpersonal communication; 3. Social network and language shift; 4. Conversational code switching; 5. Prosody in conventions; 7. Socio-cultural knowledge in conversational inference; 8. Interethnic communication; 9. Ethnic style in political rhetoric; 10. Postscript; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index.

Product details

• Authors: John J. Gumperz
• Assisted by: Paul Drew (Editor), Marjorie Harness Goodwin (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.1982
• EAN: 9780521288965
• ISBN: 978-0-521-28896-5
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Studies in Interactional Socio
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics