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Language, social structure, and culture : a genre analysis of cooking classes in Japan and America /
Comparing Japanese and American interaction, Language, Social Structure, and Culture argues that language use is instrumental in the construction of social structure and culture. In order to ground the work in empirical evidence, verbal interaction in similar situations - Japanese and American cooki...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub.,
©2003.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser., v. 109. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Comparing Japanese and American interaction, Language, Social Structure, and Culture argues that language use is instrumental in the construction of social structure and culture. In order to ground the work in empirical evidence, verbal interaction in similar situations - Japanese and American cooking classes - is compared. Unlike other studies of verbal interaction, a genre analysis approach is used to examine regular patterns at three levels of language use: interaction, discourse, and grammar. Collectively, these patterns exhibit both similarities and differences across the classes in the t. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 223 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027296764 9027296766 902725351X 9789027253514 1588113469 9781588113467 |
| ISSN: | 0922-842X ; |