A Place to Stand
Politics and Persuasion in a Working-Class Bar
ISBN13: 9780195140385ISBN10: 0195140389
Paperback,
216 pages
Dec 2001,
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Description
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 the Author(s)
Julie Lindquist, Assistant Professor of English, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
