A Place to Stand: Politics and Persuasion in a Working-Class Bar / Edition 1

by Julie Lindquist

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195140385
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/17/2002
Series:	Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	8.86(w) x 6.64(h) x 0.54(d)
Lexile:	1370L (what's this?)