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A Place to Stand: Politics and Persuasion in a Working-Class Bar - Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics Lindquist, Julie (Associate Professor of Linguistics, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg)
A Place to Stand: Politics and Persuasion in a Working-Class Bar - Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
Lindquist, Julie (Associate Professor of Linguistics, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg)
This text discusses how class culture is socially constructed and maintained through spoken language. It examines the linguistic ethnography of a working-class bar, exploring how patrons argue about political issues in order to create a group identity centred around political ideology.
214 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 17, 2002 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195140385 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 216 |
| Dimensions | 169 × 225 × 14 mm · 312 g |
| Language | English |