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Author Mayes, Patricia.

Title Language, social structure, and culture : a genre analysis of cooking classes in Japan and America / Patricia Mayes.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 223 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 109
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., v. 109. 0922-842X
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index.
Contents Language, Social Structure, and Culture; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Transcription conventions; Abbreviations in transcripts; Chapter 1. Preliminaries; Chapter 2. A closer look at genre and related concepts; Chapter 3. Regularities at the level of interaction; Chapter 4. Regularities at the level of discourse; Chapter 5. Regularities at the level of grammar; Chapter 6. Conclusion; Notes; References; Index; The series PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.
Summary 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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Subject Sociolinguistics -- Comparative method.
Sociolinguistics.
Social interaction -- Japan.
Social interaction.
Japan.
Social interaction -- United States.
United States.
Cooking schools.
Cooking schools.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Mayes, Patricia. Language, social structure, and culture. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., ©2003 902725351X 9789027253514 (DLC) 2002034193 (OCoLC)50717715
ISBN 9789027296764 (electronic book)
9027296766 (electronic book)
902725351X (Eur. ; alkaline paper)
9789027253514 (Eur. ; alkaline paper)
1588113469 (U.S. ; hardback ; alkaline paper)
9781588113467 (U.S. ; hardback ; alkaline paper)