A Place to Stand: Politics and Persuasion in a Working-Class Bar (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) - Hardcover

Lindquist, Julie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195140370 ISBN 13: 9780195140378

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Julie Lindquist, Assistant Professor of English, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg.

Review:

"Too much has been made, in recent thought, of the vanishing public sphere. Too little has been made of the role of the tavern in creating and sustaining the public, especially in early American life. Lindquist's valuable work can add to both these areas of inquiry. It can also inform larger
questions about what it is we yearn for when we imagine effective public language and viable political identity."--Language in Society

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0195140370
• ISBN 13: 9780195140378
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216