A Place to Stand
Politics and Persuasion in a Working-Class Bar
1st Edition
Published on 17. January 2002
215 pages
978-0-19-534984-9 (ISBN)
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.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1 Rhetorical Practice and the Ethnography of Class Culture
- 2 A Place in the Middle: Behind Bar at the Smokehouse
- 3 A Place to Be: The Smokehouse as Local Institution
- 4 Across the Table: Walter, Joe, Arlen, Maggie, and Perry
- 5 A Place to Tell It: Smokehouse Themes and Topoi
- 6 A Place to Stand: Argument as a Class Act
- 7 A Place for What If: Politics and Persuasion at the Smokehouse Inn
- Notes
- References
- Index
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- C
- D
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- F
- G
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