[Linganth] Gumperz and Roberts 1980

[Singh, Davindar]

Dear Prof. Das,

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 (but also
including at least one Bengali). Terminological shift aside, Gumperz still
describes "cultural differ­ences in interethnic encounters" and "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, humorously to me,
 unanswered.
.
 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.


yours,
Davindar



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> From: Sonia Das <sonia.das at nyu.edu>
> Date: Fri, May 3, 2024 at 1:15 PM
> Subject: [Linganth] Gumperz and Roberts 1980
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> Dear Linguistic Anthropologists and Sociolinguists,
>
> Does anyone have a PDF or link to the article by John Gumperz and Celia
> Roberts to send me?
>
> *Gumperz, J. J. & Roberts, C. 1980. Developing awareness skills for
> interethnic communication. In Occasional Papers, no. 12. Seameo Regional
> Language Center, Singapore.*
>
> 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 *Sociolinguistics: A Reader and
> Coursebook*, but was wondering if there's anything else on this subject
> that he and his collaborators wrote.
>
> Thank you so much!
> Sonia
>
>
> Sonia N. Das, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)
> Associate Professor
> Department of Anthropology
> New York University
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