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Publication details [#54955]

Cody, Francis. 2011. Echoes of the teashop in a Tamil newspaper. Language & Communication 31 (3) : 243–254.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discursive practice | group interaction | newspaper report | reading aloud | working class

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper discusses how the act of reading aloud the newspaper in group among working class Tamil men (in teashops) has become the object of textual representation in newspaper columns itself. It also suggests that this practice may be shifting.