Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking
Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking
2nd Edition
Richard Bauman
Joel Sherzer
Joel Sherzer
November 1989
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First published in 1974, this collection of classic case studies in the ethnography of speaking had a formative influence on the field. No other volume has so successfully provided a broad, cross-cultural survey of the use, role, and function of language and speech in everyday life. The essays deal with: traditional societies in Native North, Middle, and South America, Africa, and Oceania; English, French, and Yiddish speaking communities in Europe and North America; Afro-American communities in North America and the Caribbean. Now reissued, the collection includes a major new Introduction by the editors that traces the subsequent development of the ethnography of speaking and indicates directions for further research.
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November 1989Paperback
9780521379335
532 pages
215 × 171 × 33 mm
0.77kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction to the second edition
- Part I. Preface and Introduction: Preface
- Introduction
- Part II. Communities and Resources for Performance: Introduction
- 1. A quantitative paradigm for the study of communicative competence Gillian Sankoff
- 2. Language identity of the columbian vaupés indians Jean Jackson
- 3. 'Our ancestors spoke in pairs': rotinese views of language, dialect, and code James J. Fox
- Part III. Community Ground Rules for Performance: Introduction
- 4. Warm springs 'indian time': how the regulation of participation affects the progress of events Susan U. Philips
- 5. Contrapuntal conversations in an Antiguan village Karl Reisman
- 6. Norm-makers, norm-breakers: uses of speech by men and women in a malagasy community Elinor Keenan
- 7. Speaking in the light: the role of the quaker minister Richard Bauman
- Part IV. Speech Acts, Events, and Situations: Introduction
- 8. Strategies of status manipulation in the wolof greeting Judith T. Irvine
- 9. Rituals of encounter among the Maori: sociolinguistic study of a scene Anne Salmond
- 10. Speaking of speaking: Tenejapa tzeltal metalinguistics Brian Stross
- 11. Black talking on the streets Roger D. Abrahams
- 12. Namakke, Sunmakke, Kormakki: three types of cuna speech event Joel Sherzer
- 13. The concept and varieties of narrative performance in east European jewish culture Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
- Part V. The Shaping of Artistic Structures in Performance: Introduction
- 14. Correlates of cree narrative performance Regna Darnell
- 15. An analysis of the course of a joke's telling in conversation Harvey Sacks
- 16. When words become deeds: an analysis of three iroquois longhouse speech events Michael K. Foster
- 17. The ethnographic context of some traditional mayan speech genres Victoria R. Bricker
- 18. To speak with a heated heart: Chamula canons of style and good performance Gary H. Gossen
- Part VI. Toward an Ethnology of Speaking: Introduction
- 19. Data and data use in an analysis of communicative events Allen D. Grimshaw
- 20. The ethnography of writing Keith H. Basso
- 21. Ways of speaking Dell Hymes
- Notes
- References
- Index of names.
