A Place to Stand Politics and Persuasion in a Working-Class Bar
A Place to Stand Politics and Persuasion in a Working-Class Bar
- ISBN 13:
9780195140378
- ISBN 10:
0195140370
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 01/17/2002
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Linguists have become increasingly interested in examining how classculture is socially constructed and maintained through spoken language. JulieLindquist's examination of the linguistic ethnography of a working-class bar inChicago is an important and original contribution to the field. She examines howregular patrons argue about political issues in order to create a group identitycentered around political ideology. She also shows how their political argumentsare actually a rhetorical genre, one which creates a delicate balance betweengroup solidarity and individual identity, as well as a tenuous and ambivalentsense of class identity.