Chicano-Anglo conversations truth, honesty, and politeness
This groundbreaking book--about differences in communication practices between Mexican-American underclass residents in an East Los Angeles housing project and white, middle-class literacy tutors who worked with them--makes an important contribution to research on the sociolinguistics of the Chicano...
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Mahwah, NJ
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
2007
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| Series: | ESL and applied linguistics professional series
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The community and participants
- The social power of language
- Conducting the research
- Conversational data part I: evidential use of epistemic modals
- Conversational data part II: modality and manipulation
- Work, family, friends, and the gang: how they interact to influence talk
- Results for the future