Publications

Publication details [#4126]

Gumperz, John J. 1982. Discourse strategies. Cambridge University Press. xii + 225 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | communicative style | contextualization cue | conversational strategy | culture | interethnic context | language shift | political language | prosody | social context

Annotation

On the basis of a decade of field studies of verbal communication in India, Europe, and the U.S., G. develops an interpretative sociolinguistic approach to processes and strategies in face-to-face encounters, such as code switching, the effects of language shift, the use of prosody, contextualization cues, the use of socio-cultural knowledge, problems of interethnic communication, ethnic styles and political rhetoric.

Articles in this volume

Gumperz, John J. Social network and language shift. 38–58

Gumperz, John J. and Hannah Kaltman. Prosody, linguistic diffusion and conversational inference. 100–129

Gumperz, John J. Sociocultural knowledge in conversational inference. 153–171

Gumperz, John J. Dialect and conversational inference in urban communication. 187–203

Reviewed by

Wald, Benji. 1985. Review of J.J.Gumperz (1982: `Discourse strategies').

Lindenfeld, Jacqueline. 1984. De l'ethnographie de la communication a la sociolinguistique interactionniste.

Stubbs, Michael. 1983. Review of $Discourse strategies.

Stubbs, Michael. 1983. Review of $Discourse strategies.

Ensink, Titus. 1987. Interpretative processes in discourse: The approach by John Gumperz.

Schiffrin, Deborah. 1984. Review of $Discourse strategies.

Schiffrin, Deborah. 1984. Review of J.J. Gumperz (1982: `Discourse strategies'), J.J. Gumperz (ed.) (1982: `Language and social identity').

Reprints

Gumperz, John J. 1997. Interethnic Communication. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 395–407.