| Description |
xxii, 482 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Jane E. Goodman and Leila Monaghan -- Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner -- Culture blends / Michael Agar -- Five principles / Richard Bauman -- Thick description: toward an interpretive theory of culture / Clifford Geertz -- Winking as social business / Jane E. Goodman -- Speaking of ethnography / Leila Monaghan -- The emergent quality of performance / Richard Bauman -- Poetics, play, process, and power: the performative turn in anthropology / Dwight Conquergood -- Narrative lessons / Elinor Ochs -- Greetings in the desert / Ibrahim Ag Youssouf, Allen D. Grimshaw, and Charles S. Bird -- Let your words be few: symbolism of speaking and silence among seventeeth-century Quakers / Richard Bauman -- "To give up on words": silence in western Apache culture / Keith Basso -- "What we need is communication": "communication" as a cultural category in some American speech / Tamar Katriel and Gerry Philipsen -- Writing Cousin Joe: choice and control over orthographic representation in a blues singer's autobiography / Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer -- Talking culture: ethnography and conversation analysis / Michael Moerman -- The triangle of linguistic structure / Robin Tolmach Lakoff -- The grammar of politics and the politics of grammar: from Bangladesh to the United States / James Wilce -- Conversations: the link between words and the world / Leila Monaghan -- Conversational signals and devices / Deborah Tannen -- A cultural approach to male-female miscommunication / Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A. Borker -- Preface and "put down that paper and talk to me!": rapport-talk and report-talk / Deborah Tannen -- Swearing / Lars Andersson and Peter Trudgill -- Swearing as a function of gender in the language of midwestern American college students / Thomas E. Murray -- Speech communities / R.A. Hudson -- Encounters / Erving Goffman -- Symbols of category membership / Penelope Eckert -- Word up: social meanings of slang in California youth culture / Mary Bucholtz -- Odd girl out: the hidden culture of aggression in girls / Rachel Simmons -- Sporting formulae in New Zealand English: two models of male solidarity / Koenraad Kuiper -- Inner-city teens and face-work: avoiding violence and maintaining honor / Robert Garot -- Speech play / John Holmes McDowell -- "If I'm lyin, I'm flyin": the game of insult in Black language / Geneva Smitherman -- Power and the language of men / Scott Fabius Kiesling -- Mayor Daley's council speech: a cultural analysis / Gerry Philipsen -- Linguistic ideology and praxis in US law school classrooms / Elizabeth Mertz -- Participant structures and communicative competence: Warm Springs children in community and classroom / Susan U. Philips -- Footing / Erving Goffman -- "An association for the 21st century": performance and social change among Berbers in Paris / Jane E. Goodman -- Signing / Leila Monaghan -- Variation in sign languages / Barbara LeMaster and Leila Monaghan -- The founding of two deaf churches / Leila Monaghan -- Attacking the bureaucratic language of car sales: a case study of a car sales event / Roger W. Shuy. |
| Subject |
Interpersonal communication -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Interpersonal communication. |
| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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| Subject |
Communication and culture.
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Communication and culture. |
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Language and culture.
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Language and culture. |
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Interpersoonlijke communicatie. |
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Culturele aspecten. |
| Added Author |
Monaghan, Leila Frances, 1960-
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Goodman, Jane E., 1956-
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| ISBN |
1405125950 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9781405125956 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1405125942 paperback alkaline paper |
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9781405125949 paperback alkaline paper |
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