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Ethnolinguistic Chicago

Language and Literacy in the City's Neighborhoods

• Edited by Marcia Farr

• Price: $57.95
• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Pages: 416
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1st July 2003
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-4346-0

About the Book

This book, together with Latino Language and Literacy in Ethnolinguistic Chicago, documents how the future in a globalizing world is not only increasingly multilingual, but that diversity in language use (within one language and across languages) will always be with us. Most of the chapters in Ethnolinguistic Chicago are based on ethnographic studies of language, though several provide historical narratives as well. As a whole, this book offers a richly diverse set of portraits whose central themes emerged inductively from the research process and the communities themselves. All chapters emphasize language use as centrally related to ethnic, class, or gender identities. As such, this volume will interest anthropologists, sociologists, linguists, historians, educators and educational researchers, and others whose concerns require an understanding of "ground-level" phenomena relevant to contemporary social issues.

Table of Contents

Contents: D. Hymes, Foreword. Preface. Part I: Introduction and Background. M. Farr, R. Reynolds, Introduction: Language and Identity in a Global City. E.L. Judd, Language Policy in Illinois: Past and Present. Part II: Within the Family Circle. M. Morgan, Signifying Laughter and the Subtleties of Loud-Talking: Memory and Meaning in African American Women's Discourse. G.E. Cho, P.J. Miller, Personal Storytelling: Working-Class and Middle-Class Mothers in Comparative Perspective. L. Koliussi, Identity Construction in Discourse: Gender Tensions Among Greek Americans in Chicago. Part III: Community Spaces. B.J. Moss, A Literacy Event in African American Churches: The Sermon as a Community Text. R. Reynolds, "Bless This Little Time We Stayed Here": Prayers of Invocation as Mediation of Immigrant Experience Among Nigerians in Chicago. S. Radloff, The Arab Accountant as Language Mediator. C. Isaacson, They Did Not Forget Their Swedish: Class Markers in the Swedish-American Community. G. Nardini, Italian Patterns in the American Collandia Ladies' Club: How Do Women Make Bella Figura? D. Markelis, Lithuanian and English Language Use Among Early Twentieth Century Lithuanian Immigrants in Chicago. J. Lindquist, Class Identity and the Politics of Dissent: The Culture of Argument in a Chicago Neighborhood Bar. J. Rohsenow, Chinese Language Use in Chicagoland. L. Miller, Consuming Japanese Print Media in Chicago. R. Gundlach, Afterword.