It is published here for the first time in paperback and. The ethnography of communication john joseph gumperz, dell h. An introduction to sociolinguistics aita01 1 5905, 4. His key contribution, building on work in the areas of ethnography of communication and linguistic anthropology, was to reassert that culture is essentially a communicative phenomenon, constituted through talk gumperz and cook gumperz 2008. Finally, note that linguistic anthropology including interactional sociolinguistics is not to be confused with variationist sociolinguistics.
Interactional sociolinguistics localizes its analysis not on language writ large, but rather on what hymes 1996 calls linguistic repertoiresa set of ways of speaking p. Interactional sociolinguistics derives from a variety of disciplines including ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, linguistics, pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, sociology, ethnography and dialectology. As di luzio sketches in his contribution to this volume, gumperz had a. His key contribution, building on work in the areas of ethnography of communication and linguistic anthropology, was to reassert that culture is essentially a communicative phenomenon, constituted through talk gumperz and cookgumperz 2008. In the words of a bestselling manual, habitforming. Drawing on interactional sociolinguistics, rampton 2007 describes that.
Interactional sociolinguistics is an approach to discourse analysis that studies how. Gumperz 1982 further developed this notion and talked about a codelike relationship not only between language and the social but also between different types of. Throughout western society there are now strong pressures for social and racial integration but, in spite of these, recent experience has shown that greater intergroup contact can actually reinforce social distinctions and ethnic stereotypes. Language and social identity studies in interactional sociolinguistics currently unavailable. It is investigated that while making use of codeswitching, there is a frequent use of different linguistic features of codeswitching between urdu and english by university teachers.
Linguistic and social interaction in two communities. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Gumperz the social construction of literacy edited by jenny cook. Interactional sociolinguistics is a qualitative, interpretative approach to the analysis of social interaction that developed at the intersection of linguistics. Reviewed by deborah schiffrin, georgetown university the first of these two collections of essays, ds, results from ten years of gumperzs field research on verbal communication in europe, india. Jenny cookgumperz vitae gevirtz graduate school of. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Some universals in language usage studies in interactional sociolinguistics book 4 reissue edition, kindle edition by penelope brown author, stephen c. According to gumperz 1982, in is analysis, speaking is treated as a reflexive process such that everything said can be directly related to preceding talk, reflecting a set of immediate circumstances, or responding to past events. Interactional sociolinguisticsgumperz, 1982 specifically the notion of contextualisation cues gumperz, 1982, 1999to explore how leadership is read off particular linguistic devices and conversationalmoves.
Next, the contributions of the linguistic anthropologist john gumperz are discussed see chick, this volume. For reasons which i was not entirely conscious of at the time, i chose the study of interactional sociolinguistics, an approach which was not considered in the emerging catalan sociolinguistics of the. Interactional sociolinguistics is a branch of discourse analysis with a long. Interactional sociolinguistics is can be described as the application of interpretive methods of discourse analysis to gain detailed. Although at one point, hymes and gumperz included labovs work on.
A number of commentaries provide a stimulating and illuminating series of theoretical and applied encounters with gumperzs work from different perspectives. The speech community spcom, a core concept in empirical linguistics, is the intersection of many principal problems in sociolinguistic theory and method. Examples of dif ferent forms of da include interactional sociolinguistic is analysis gumperz, 1982gumperz, 1999, conversation analysis sacks, 1995, and. Over the past twentyfiveyears, sociolinguistics and education have entered into a methodological and intellectual dialogue that has significantly changed both. Studies in interactional sociolinguistics 1 discourse strategies companion to this volume language and social identit. Under this licence, the contents are freely available online as pdf files for anybody to read. Interactional sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography. Gumperz was an integral figure in the solidification of anthropology as an academic. When most people think of the word whatever, they think. Companions to this volume discourse strategies john j. Gumperz and interactional sociolinguistics researchgate. Studies in interactional sociolinguistics 4 general editor.
Introduction a bimultilingual has the resources of. Sage reference gumperz and interactional sociolinguistics. In so doing, they shed new light on gumperzs seminal contribution to the study of language and interaction. John joseph gumperz january 9, 1922 march 29, 20 was an american linguist and academic. I suggest this reading shapes and is shaped by fleeting and. Equalising power, respecting differences and changing the. Gumperz 1999 could be conceptualised as the three facets of translation. It is one of the ways in which linguists look at the intersections of human language and human society. The format partly resembles the traditional ca datasession. Gumperz was, for most of his career, a professor at the university of california, berkeley. Incorporating translation into sociolinguistic research. Bringing together work from conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, cognitive semantics, pragmatics, and variation analysis, in other words will be invaluable for scholars wishing to understand the many different factors that underlie the shaping and reshaping of discourse over time, place and person. Blackwell textbooks in linguistics the books included in this series provide comprehensive accounts of some of the most central and most rapidly developing areas of research in linguistics. Our owr disciplinary approachthat of interactional sociolinguistics will, we hope, be.
Interactional sociolinguistics focus on how people from. Interactional sociolinguistics is developed as the expression of john gumperzs approach to. To understand the role of language in public life and the social process in general, we need first a closer understanding of how linguistic knowledge and social factors interact in discourse interpretation. Sociolinguistics, as a separate field of study, was developed in the last quarter of the 20th century. Using gumperzs 2001 interactional sociolinguistic is approach, da enables an analysis of how participants interpret and convey meaning in everyday.
This article traces some of the ways this concern manifested itself through such concepts as key situation, and in research foci on moments of social selection in powerful state institutions. Discourse strategies studies in interactional sociolinguistics pdf. In my own recent work, i have taken over the approach to verbal signaling processes that has. Contextualization cues gumperz 1982 signaling mechanisms used by. Gwnperz politeness some universals in language usage. General interest language and social identity edited by john j. Interactional sociolinguistics is a subdiscipline of linguistics that uses discourse analysis to. Interactional sociolinguistics focus on how people from differentcultures may share grammaticalknowledge of a language, butdifferently contextualize what is saidsuch that very different messages areproduced gumperz, 1982. By the mid 1980s, sociolinguistics did not necessarily refer to the broad field originally conceptualized by hymes. Gumperz skip to main content accessibility help we use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Buy discourse strategies studies in interactional sociolinguistics underlined by gumperz, john j. Gumperz and social justice john gumperzs work was characterized by a concern for social justice. Directions in sociolinguistics is a now classic collection of pioneering essays by leading sociolinguists.
Discourse strategies studies in interactional sociolinguistics by gumperz, john j. Principles of interactional sociolinguistics no class, labor day 97 gumperz, the conversational analysis of interethnic communication week 3 912 conversational style tannen, thats not what i meant. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link. In 1975, i applied for a fulbright scholarship to specialize in an area that was not. In the words of a bestselling manual, habit forming.
In section 5, i return to gumperz and interactional sociolinguistics, arguing that their tracking of real time attention and inferencing, their recognition of discrepant but hidden communicative preferences, and their critique of the legibility of populations, all remain highly relevant. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Gumperz language and social identity edited by john j. Interactional sociolinguistics is is primarily associated with the work of john gumperz. In this respect, it is true to say that much work in linguistic anthropology has a discourse analytical andor a pragmatic orientation. Interactional sociolinguistics chapter 9 sociolinguistics and. Interactional identities and multilingual practices of an international spanish language group hannah m. Language and social identity studies in interactional. This volume is a major advance towards that understanding. It argues that combining a sociolinguistic approach more precisely linguistic. The task i have been set in this chapter is made more complex by the need to distinguish individual contributions from joint work and both. Professor gumperz here synthesizes fundamental research on communication from a wide variety of disciplines linguistics.
It is often claimed that interactional sociolinguistics draws on the work of erving goffman and john gumperz 1982a, 1982b. The word sociolinguistics was apparently coined already in 1939 in the. Gumperz discusses a form of discourse analysis that is used by sociolinguistics to helps to account and interpret what people intend to communicate in everyday. Interactional sociolinguistics is a subdiscipline of linguistics that uses discourse analysis to study how language users create meaning via social interaction. American anthropologist with this title gumperz and hymes 1964, has in its development drawn heavily upon and mutually in. Throughout western society there are now strong pressures for. In other words, we use talk, a to create the context in terms of we interpret what were saying, and b to arrive at certain kinds of interpretation. She also joined the committee on sociolinguistics in 1966 ervintripp, 1997. Deborah tannen, deborah schiffrin, and heidi hamilton. Gumperz 1982 and the latter largely drawing on social information to illuminate issues of linguistic structure, variation, and change. His research on the languages of india, on codeswitching in norway, and on conversational interaction, has benefitted the study of sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology, and urban. Under this licence, the contents are freely available online as pdf files s.