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Publication details [#4128]

Gumperz, John J. 1984. Ethnography in urban communication. In Auer, J.C. Peter and Aldo Di Luzio, eds. Interpretive sociolinguistics: Migrants, children, migrant children. G. Narr. pp. 1–12.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnography | urban community

Annotation

G. shows how ethnographic studies of naturally organized communicative situations can lead to more formal hypotheses concerning the basic constraints that affect the operation of public institutions in urban society and the fate of individuals that come in contact with them.