Publications

Publication details [#4123]

Gumperz, John J. 1979. The retrieval of sociocultural knowledge in conversation. Poetics Today 1 (1) : 273–286.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | conversational strategy | culture | social context

Annotation

G. argues that strategies of conversational management are in large part specific to participants' sociocultural background. Sociocultural diversity can best be studied by detailed analyses of contextualization strategies.

Reprints

Baugh, John and Joel Sherzer. 1984. In Baugh, John and Joel Sherzer, eds. Language in use: Readings in sociolinguistics. Prentice-Hall. pp. 127–138.