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9780791440919

Che Bella Figura! : The Power of Performance in an Italian Ladies' Club in Chicago

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791440919

  • ISBN10:

    0791440915

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-05-01
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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Author Biography

Gloria Nardini is Visiting Lecturer of English and Managerial Communications at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Table of Contents

Preface vii(2)
Acknowledgments ix
My Methodology: The Ethnography of Communication 1(4)
ONE A Definition of Bella Figura
5(30)
TWO The Conceptual Framework of this Study and Related Literature on Women's Language
35(20)
THREE A History of the Collandia Club
55(22)
FOUR Bella Figura at the Collandia Club
77(28)
FIVE The Transcript: A Linguistic Event Transformed
105(22)
Bella Figura
Conclusion 127(6)
Appendix A 133(10)
Endnotes 143(6)
Works Cited 149(10)
Index 159

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