Language and Social Identity

Book Overview

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. The studies collected here examine, from a broad sociological perspective, the sorts of face-to-face verbal exchange that are characteristic of industrial societies, and the volume as a whole pointedly demonstrates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521288975
• ISBN13: 9780521288972
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"