| During my fieldwork in Chicago's trading pits, I've become curious about
the ordinary conversations of financial professionals. I am focusing on
traders' jokes about their jobs, themselves and each other - a genre of
talk that is often very ribald - to explore how metaphors and conceptions
of male sexuality may influence capitalist practice. My theoretical interests
concern applications of the linguistic relativity hypothesis, i.e. the role
that clichéd or dead metaphors play in constituting cultural reality,
as well as the ethnography of North American capitalism. |
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