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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayes, Patricia.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., v. 109.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 109

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics--Comparative method.

Sociolinguistics.

Social interaction--Japan.

Social interaction.

Social interaction--United States.

Cooking schools.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins, 2002.

Language Note:

English

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 two cultures, creating the unique event that has been institutionalized as a cooking class in each culture. In concluding, the author suggests that genre analysis is a useful approach for cross-cultural research in that it provides information about situation-specific language use, but also information about what aspects of linguistic structure are likely to become conventionalized across languages and cultures, across situations, and across time.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612161407

9781282161405

1282161407

9789027296764

9027296766

OCLC:

52965672