Lindquist Julie. A Place to Stand: Politics and Persuasion in a Working-Class Bar

Oxford University Press, 2002. — 216 p. — (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics). — ISBN 9780195140385, 9780195302554, 0195140389, 0195140370, 9780195140378.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.Rhetorical Practice and the Ethnography of Class Culture
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