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Title Language and interaction : discussions with John J. Gumperz / edited by Susan L. Eerdmans, Carlo L. Prevignano, Paul J. Thibault
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 171 pages) : illustrations
Contents Presenting John J. Gumperz / Aldo di Luzio -- Discussion with John J. Gumperz / Carlo L. Prevignano, Aldo di Luzio -- Contextualizing "contextualization cues" / Stephen C. Levinson -- Contextualization and social meaning-making practices / Paul J. Thibault -- On Gumperz and the minims of interaction / Carlo L. Prevignano -- Commentary on a discussion with John J. Gumperz / Afzal Ballim -- Review of John J. Gumperz's current contributions to interactional sociolinguistics / Susan L. Eerdmans -- Response essay / John J. Gumperz -- Body dynamics, social meaning-making, and scale heterogeneity: re-considering contextualization cues and language as mixed-mode semiosis / Paul J. Thibault -- Continuing the discussion with John J. Gumperz / Carlo L. Prevignano, Paul J. Thibault
Summary This book features a fascinating and extended focal interview with Professor John J. Gumperz, who ranges over his long career trajectory and reflects on his scientific achievements and how they relate to the contemporary linguistic scene. In this way, the reader is presented with a snapshot introduction to Gumperz's work in a contemporary context. A number of commentaries provide a stimulating and illuminating series of theoretical and applied encounters with Gumperz's work from different perspectives. In so doing, they shed new light on Gumperz's seminal contribution to the study of language a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Gumperz, John J. (John Joseph), 1922-2013.
SUBJECT Gumperz, John J. (John Joseph), 1922-2013 fast
Subject Sociolinguistics.
Social interaction.
sociolinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
Social interaction
Sociolinguistics
Verbale communicatie.
Sociale interactie.
Form Electronic book
Author Eerdmans, Susan.
Prevignano, Carlo.
Thibault, Paul J.
ISBN 9789027296849
9027296847
902722594X
9789027225948
1588113043
9781588113047