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Discourse Strategies
Contributor(s): Gumperz, John J. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0521288967     ISBN-13: 9780521288965
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $70.29  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 1982
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Annotation: 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.

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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General
Dewey: 401.9
LCCN: 81020627
Series: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" L (0.65 lbs) 240 pages
Features: Bibliography
 
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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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