Complaining and Commiserating
A Speech Act View of Solidarity in Spoken American English
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1993
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-2021-9 (ISBN)
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-2021-9 (ISBN)
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This book provides an in-depth ethnographic analysis of the social functions of indirect complaints (ICs) and commiserative responses as they are used among speakers of American English and one group of Japanese learners of American English. The speech acts of complaining and commiserating are analysed as a function of the sociolinguistic variables of gender, social distance and relative social status. Indirect complaints were found to be ubiquitous in the ordinary conversation of the native speakers studied. The vast majority of IC exchanges were found to establish solidarity between interlocutors based on a shared view.
The Author: Diana Boxer received her Ph.D. in educational linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. She is an assistant professor of linguistics and academic coordinator of the English Language Institute at the University of Florida. Dr. Boxer has thought foreign languages and English as a second and foreign language both in the U.S. and abroad.
Contents: The book provides a descriptive analysis of indirect complaints and commiserations among native speakers as well as a discussion of the social distributions of ICs and their responses. Non-native IC-commiseration use is compared with native speaker use. Implications for TESOL pedagogy are drawn.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.12.1993 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | History and Language ; 2 |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 500 g |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8204-2021-2 / 0820420212 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8204-2021-9 / 9780820420219 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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