The Struggle and the Tools
Oral and Literate Strategies in an Inner City Community
Paperback Engels 1998 9780791439821Samenvatting
Explores the daily lives of a group of inner city residents, focusing particularly upon their language use and other types of literate strategies used to gain resources, access to social institutions, and respect.
The Struggle and the Tools explores the daily lives and language use of African-American men, women, and children living in an inner city neighborhood. Based on three-and-a-half years of fieldwork, this book presents the oral, literate, and analytical strategies (the "tools") inner city residents use to gain resources, access to social institutions, and respect (the "struggle"). It honors both the types of agency present in the struggle, and the kinds of linguistic savvy present in the tools. It examines the deep games of power they play with their language and social consciousness and characterizes their daily experiences without glorification.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgments
Notational Devices
1. The Struggle and the Tools
2. Activist Methodology
3. African Americans and Quayville
4. The Language of Eviction
5. Institutional Language in an Inner City
6. "Racism Always on the Front of My Mind"
7. "An Everyday Fight for Us to Get Simple Respect"
8. The Transfer of Language in Gatekeeping Interactions
9. Evaluating the Tools
10. "Your Honor, I Just Can't Control Him Anymore"
11. Language and Power in the Everyday
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan