<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Prof. Das,</div><div><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but I hope it might be helpful, and it might be more-or-less the same material. It appears that by 1987 Gumperz had partially turned "Interethnic" into "Intercultural," as seen in this comparative study of "British-British" and "Asian-Asian" British institutional interactions in the late 1970s, the latter material comprising mostly Punjabi-background residents of the Midlands </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">(but also including at least one Bengali)</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">. Terminological shift aside, Gumperz still describes "</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">cultural differences in interethnic encounters" and </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">"</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Ethnically determined background expectations about the power of individual [institutional] gatekeepers." But given the colonial-era history of much of Punjab's bureaucratic structure, the question of which "[singular?] ethnicity" was determining which set of "background expectations" about institutional access at whatever point remains, </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">humorously to me,</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"> unanswered.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">.</span></div><div> Gumperz, John and Celia Roberts. 1991. "Understanding in Intercultural Encounters." In: THE PRAGMATICS OF
INTERCULTURAL AND
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION: Selected papers of
the International Pragmatics Conference,
Antwerp, August 17-22, 1987 (Volume III). John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam/Philadelphia.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">yours,</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">Davindar</span></font></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Sonia Das</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:sonia.das@nyu.edu" target="_blank">sonia.das@nyu.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, May 3, 2024 at 1:15 PM<br>Subject: [Linganth] Gumperz and Roberts 1980<br>To: <<a href="mailto:LINGANTH@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">LINGANTH@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Dear Linguistic Anthropologists and Sociolinguists,<div><br></div><div>Does anyone have a PDF or link to the article by John Gumperz and Celia Roberts to send me?</div><div><br></div><div><b>Gumperz, J. J. & Roberts, C. 1980. Developing awareness skills for interethnic communication. In Occasional Papers, no. 12. Seameo Regional Language Center, Singapore.</b></div><div><br></div><div>If not, I'm looking for any article written by John Gumperz on the idea of "interethnic communication" between speakers of Indian English and British English. I have found the one in <i>Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook</i>, but was wondering if there's anything else on this subject that he and his collaborators wrote.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you so much!</div><div>Sonia</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Sonia N. Das, Ph.D. </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">(she/her/hers)</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Associate Professor</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Department of Anthropology</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">New York University</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="mailto:sonia.das@nyu.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">sd99@nyu.edu</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">2</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">12-992-7476</span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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