A Place to Stand Politics and Persuasion in a Working-Class Bar |
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Author:
| Lindquist, Julie |
Series title: | Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-534984-9 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
Publisher: | Ebsco Publishing
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $32.00 |
Book Description:
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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. Sheexamines 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...
More DescriptionLinguists 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. Sheexamines 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, aswell as a tenuous and ambivalent sense of class identity.