Gifted Tongues: High School Debate and Adolescent Culture (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)  -  Gary Alan Fine

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Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team. Teenage debaters also participate in a distinct cultural world--complete with its own jargon and status system--in which they must negotiate complicated relationships with teammates, competitors, coaches, and parents as well as classmates outside the debating circuit. In Gifted Tongues, Gary Alan Fine offers a rich description of this world as a testing ground for both intellectual and...
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2001 Uitgever: Princeton University Press 328 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 069107450X ISBN-13: 9780691074504