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 individuals of different social and ethnic backgrounds. The urgent need to overcome such barriers to effective communication is also a central concern of the book. Examples of conversational exchanges as well as of longer encounters, recorded in the urban United States, village Austria, South Asia and Britain, and analyzed to illustrate all aspects of the analytical approach, and to show how subconscious cultural presuppositions can damagingly affect interpretation of intent and judgement of interspeaker attitude. The volume will be of central interest to anyone concerned with communication, whether from a more academic viewpoint or as a professional working, for example, in the fields of interethnic or industrial relations.
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Communication is a social activity requiring the coordinated efforts of two or more individuals. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
conversational synchrony, contextualization conventions, code switching styles, prosodic conventions, tone group boundaries, tone group boundary, code alternation, conversational code switching, signalling value, conversational inference, conversational cooperation, accent placement, communicative conventions, conversational involvement, interpretive preferences, contextualization cues, conversational functions, conversational management, social presuppositions, pragmatic conventions, situated interpretation, pitch register, communicative experience, thematic progression, bilingual situations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Indian English, Western English, United States, Black English, American English, San Francisco, Gail Valley, New York, West Indian, North India, British English, Ealing Technical College, Puerto Rican New!
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Communication is a social activity requiring the coordinated efforts of two or more individuals. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
conversational synchrony, contextualization conventions, code switching styles, prosodic conventions, tone group boundaries, tone group boundary, code alternation, conversational code switching, signalling value, conversational inference, conversational cooperation, accent placement, communicative conventions, conversational involvement, interpretive preferences, contextualization cues, conversational functions, conversational management, social presuppositions, pragmatic conventions, situated interpretation, pitch register, communicative experience, thematic progression, bilingual situations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Indian English, Western English, United States, Black English, American English, San Francisco, Gail Valley, New York, West Indian, North India, British English, Ealing Technical College, Puerto Rican New!
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- Language and Social Identity (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics) by John J. Gumperz on 4 pages
- Latino Language and Communicative Behavior (Advances in Discourse Processes, Vol. 6) (v. 6) by Richard P. Duran in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Cognitive Anthropology by Stephen A. Tyler in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition) by Ludwig Wittgenstein in Back Matter
- Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use (Language, Thought, and Culture) by Mary Sanches in Back Matter
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- Code-Switching in Conversation: Language, Interaction and Identity by Peter Auer on 9 pages
- Sprech- Und Gesprachsstile (German Edition) by Margret Sleting on 5 pages
- Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics) by Bambi B. Schieffelin on 4 pages
- Approaches to Discourse (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics) by Deborah Schiffrin on page 98, page 99, and Back Matter
- Encyclopedia of Language and Education: Volume 3: Oral Discourse and Education (v. 3) by Bronwyn Davies on page 84, page 93, and page 155
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