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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785822403321

Autore

Harman Lesley D. <1956->

Titolo

The modern stranger : on language and membership / / Lesley D. Harman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1988, c1987

ISBN

3-11-087289-7

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 pages)

Collana

Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; ; 47

Classificazione

ES 135

Disciplina

302.5/44

Soggetti

Marginality, Social

Alienation (Social psychology)

Home - Psychological aspects

Group identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revision of thesis (doctoral)--York University, Toronto, Ont.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-172) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter I Sociology and "The Stranger" -- Chapter II The Social Organization of Strangeness: Toward a Redefinition of Home -- Chapter III On Being in Between: Observation and Marginality -- Chapter IV The Language of Membership -- Chapter V Toward the Modern Stranger -- Appendix A Some Political Implications of the Modern Stranger -- References -- Index -- Back matter