Lindquist, Julie
A Place to Stand : Politics and Persuasion in a Working-Class Bar
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.
Keywords: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics LAN009000
- Author(s)
- Lindquist, Julie
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 2002
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Languages
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780195349849