Discourse Strategies

The volume will be of central interest to anyone concerned with communication in the fields of interethnic or industrial relations.

Zusammenfassung
To understand the role of language in public life and the social process in general, we need first a closer understanding of how linguistic knowledge and social factors interact in discourse interpretation. This volume is a major advance towards that understanding.

Inhalt

Preface; A note on conventions; 1. Introduction; 2. The sociolinguistics of interpersonal communication; 3. Social network and language shift; 4. Conversational code switching; 5. Prosody in conventions; 7. Socio-cultural knowledge in conversational inference; 8. Interethnic communication; 9. Ethnic style in political rhetoric; 10. Postscript; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index.