Chicano-Anglo Conversations: Truth, Honesty, and Politeness

In: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Ethnic Terms Used in This Book -- 1 Introduction -- Brief History of Migration -- The Contemporary Situation -- Background -- The Evolution of this Study from Literacy Research -- Focus of the Study -- Lemon Grove Values as Re?ected and Created in Conversation -- Truth -- Anglo, Middle-Class Values as Re?ected and Created in Conversation -- Sociocultural Factors Contributing to Differential Language Use -- 2 The Community and Participants -- Community Demographics -- Data and Discussion -- The Community's gang -- Cast of Characters -- Tutors -- Literacy Participants -- Conclusion -- 3 The Social Power of Language -- Social Constructivism: From History to Current Theory -- Sociology of Knowledge -- Goffman and Face -- Speech Act Theory: Austin -- Speech Act Theory Continued: Grice -- Formalists -- Functionalists -- Formalism, Functionalism, and Developing Theories of Interpersonal Communication -- Conversation Analysis and Ethnography of Communication -- Critical Language Study -- Language and Power -- Politeness -- Brown and Levinson's Model -- Criticisms of the Brown and Levinson Model -- Examples of Politeness from the Conversations -- Epistemic Modals as Politeness Markers -- 4 Conducting the Research -- Data Collection -- Methodological Perspectives -- Factors in Data Collection -- Modal Auxiliaries -- Epistemic Modal Adverbs -- Lexical Verbs as Epistemic Modals -- The Relationship of Epistemic Modality to Evidentiality -- Epistemic Modals Selected for Study -- Conclusion -- 5 Conversational Data Part I: Evidential Uses of Epistemic Modals -- Evidential versus Non-Evidential Uses of Epistemic Modals -- Overview of Evidentials in the Conversations -- Evidential Modal Functions Used Differently by the Two Groups of Speakers