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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449947203321

Titolo

Ethnolinguistic Chicago : language and literacy in the city's neighborhoods / / edited by Marcia Farr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2007]

©2003

ISBN

1-4106-0890-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (415 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/4/0977311

Soggetti

English language - Illinois - Chicago

English language - Social aspects - Illinois - Chicago

English language - Variation - Illinois - Chicago

Ethnic groups - Illinois - Chicago

Literacy - Illinois - Chicago

Electronic books.

Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions

Chicago (Ill.) Ethnic relations

Chicago (Ill.) Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 INTRODUCTION: LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY IN A GLOBAL CITY; 2 LANGUAGE POLICY IN ILLINOIS: PAST AND PRESENT; 3 SIGNIFYING LAUGHTER AND THE SUBTLETIES OF LOUD-TALKING: MEMORY AND MEANING IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S DISCOURSE; 4 PERSONAL STORYTELLING: WORKING-CLASS AND MIDDLE-CLASS MOTHERS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE; 5 IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN DISCOURSE: GENDER TENSIONS AMONG GREEK AMERICANS IN CHICAGO; 6 A LITERACY EVENT IN AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCHES: THE SERMON AS A COMMUNITY TEXT

7 ""BLESS THIS LITTLE TIME WE STAYED HERE"": PRAYERS OF INVOCATION AS MEDIATION OF IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE AMONG NIGERIANS IN CHICAGO8 THE ARAB ACCOUNTANT AS LANGUAGE MEDIATOR; 9 THEY DID NOT FORGET THEIR SWEDISH: CLASS MARKERS IN THE SWEDISH AMERICAN COMMUNITY; 10 ITALIAN PATTERNS IN THE



AMERICAN COLLANDIA LADIES' CLUB: HOW DO WOMEN MAKE BELLA FIGURA?; 11 LITHUANIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE USE AMONG EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY LITHUANIAN IMMIGRANTS IN CHICAGO; 12 CLASS IDENTITY AND THE POLITICS OF DISSENT: THE CULTURE OF ARGUMENT IN A CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD BAR; 13 CHINESE LANGUAGE USE IN CHICAGOLAND

14 CONSUMING JAPANESE PRINT MEDIA IN CHICAGOAfterword; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book, together withLatino 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 whosecentral 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.