Language and Social Identity

Edited by: John J. Gumperz, University of California, Berkeley

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Series: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics(No. 2)

ISBN:9780521288972
Publication date:January 1983

288pages

Dimensions: 216 x 138 mm

Weight: 0.37kg

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A collection of case studies based on close analysis of different face-to-face verbal exchanges characteristic of modern industrial society. They illustrate the way discourse conventions and situational and social factors affect conversational inferences.