| Description |
xxii, 482 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| 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 -- Preface to 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 -- Language and the power 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 -- 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 |
| Summary |
Starting from the premise that interpersonal communication is inseparable from culture, this collection moves beyond traditional approaches to the subject by foregrounding the ways in which interpersonal relationships emerge through culturally mediated language practices |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Communication and culture.
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Interpersonal communication -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Interpersonal communication.
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Language and culture.
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Sociolinguistics.
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| Author |
Goodman, Jane E., 1956-
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Monaghan, Leila Frances, 1960-
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| LC no. |
2006028941 |
| ISBN |
1405125942 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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1405125950 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9781405125949 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9781405125956 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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