| A Place to Stand: Politics & Persuasion in a Working-Class Bar Contributor(s): Lindquist, Julie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195140389 ISBN-13: 9780195140385 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2002 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics |
| Dewey: 306.440 |
| LCCN: 2001036855 |
| Lexile Measure: 1370 |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6.64" W x 8.86" (0.69 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |