{"pk":7060,"title":"\"Friends aren't friends, homes\": A Working Vocabulary for Referring to Rolldogs and Chuchos","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In this article I analyze various apparently synonymous words for 'friend' (e.g. 'homes,' 'bro,' 'homeboy,' ese,' and 'rolldog') as they are used by one former gangmember , Mario, to persuade two current gang-members to stop \"gangbanging.\" While giving advice to the two current gangsters, Mario uses a variety of words in order to refer to \"so-called friends\" and to index the fact that he is, though no longer a gangster, part of the same community as his addressees. This analysis also shows how the meanings of these disparate reference terms are made and re-made through talk as conversationalists use these words to put forward their contrasting points of view.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Applied Linguistics"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8vq360t6","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Betsy","middle_name":"","last_name":"Rymes","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Los Angeles","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2011-02-05T00:00:00-08:00","date_accepted":"2011-02-05T00:00:00-08:00","date_published":"1996-06-30T00:00:00-07:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ial/article/7060/galley/4180/download/"}]}