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Speech and Sociability at French Urban Marketplaces

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins
Year
1990
ISBN
9027250170, 9789027250179
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13219326 bytes)
Series
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 7
Edition
1st
Pages
181\183
Time added
2014-11-24 16:46:18

Description

This study is both particularistic and generalizing. At one level it can be seen as an investigation of French urban marketplaces as systems of communication, with a microscopic examination of verbal interaction and sociability patterns in a specific cultural setting. At another level it constitutes an attempt to show some relationships between the ethnography of communication, urban anthropology and symbolic interactionism: all three lines of inquiry converge here to highlight the social and symbolic dimensions of traditional street markets in modern urban France, with primary focus on the role of speech in sociability. A major source of inspiration is interactional sociolinguistics which considers language as an activity performed by social actors for specific purposes.

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