Overview

This work features an extended focal interview with Professor John J. Gumperz, who ranges over his long career trajectory and reflects on his scientific achievements and how they relate to the contemporary linguistic scene. In this way, the reader is presented with a snapshot introduction to Gumperz's work in a contemporary context. A number of commentaries provide a stimulating and illuminating series of theoretical and applied encounters with Gumperz's work from different perspectives. In so doing, they shed new light on Gumperz's seminal contribution to the study of language and interaction. In his Response Essay and in a final discussion, Gumperz clarifies his views on many of the topics discussed in the volume, as well as sharing with readers his views on some other approaches to language and interaction that are closely aligned to his own.

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Author:   Susan L. Eerdmans (University of Bologna) ,  Carlo L. Prevignano (University of Bologna) ,  Paul J. Thibault (University of Venice; Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Weight:   0.375kg
ISBN:  

9789027225948

ISBN 10:   902722594
Pages:   171
Publication Date:   28 February 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. 1. Presenting John J. Gumperz (by Di Luzio, Aldo); 3. 2. A discussion with John J. Gumperz (by Prevignano, Carlo L.); 4. 3. Contextualizing contextualization cues (by Levinson, Stephen C.); 5. 4. Contextualization and social meaning-making practices (by Thibault, Paul J.); 6. 5. Gumperz and the minims of interaction (by Prevignano, Carlo L.); 7. 6. Commentary on a discussion with John J. Gumperz (by Ballim, Afzal); 8. 7. A review of John J. Gumperz's current contributions to Interactional Sociolinguistics (by Eerdmans, Susan L.); 9. 8. Response essay (by Gumperz, John J.); 10. 9. Body dynamics, social meaning-making, and scale heterogeneity: Re-considering contextualization cues and language as mixed-mode semiosis (by Thibault, Paul J.); 11. 10. Continuing the discussion with John J. Gumperz (by Prevignano, Carlo L.); 12. Bio-bibliographical note; 13. Subject index; 14. Author index

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