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Publication details [#13799]

Singh, Rajendra and Gita Martohardjono. 1995. Review of J. Gumperz (1982: 'Language and Social Identity'). In Singh, Rajendra, Probal Dasgupta and Jayant K. Lele. Explorations in Indian Sociolinguistics. (Language and Development 2). SAGE Publications. pp. 219–228.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication breakdown | cultural constraint | discourse strategy | ethnicity

Language as a subject

Annotation

The issue being investigated is how ethnicity and different cultural backgrounds determine linguistic and discourse strategies of speakers, and how these differences account for communication breakdowns.