Explorations in the ethnography of speaking / edited by Richard Bauman and Joel Sherzer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bauman, Richard, 1940-

Sherzer, Joel.

Series:

Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ; no. 8.

Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and culture.

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 501 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Summary:

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 social life. The essays deal with traditional societies in Native North, Middle, and South America, Africa, and Oceania, as well as English, French, and Yiddish speaking communities in Europe and North America and Afro-American communities in North America and the Caribbean.

Now reissued, the collection includes a major new introduction by the editors which traces the subsequent development of the ethnography of speaking and indicates directions for future research. The theoretical and methodological concepts and perspectives which illuminated the first edition are now recognized and valued by many disciplines beyond that of linguistic anthropology. Scholars and students whose backgrounds may be in literature, speech communication, performance studies or ethnomusicology will equally welcome this new edition.

Contents:

II. Communities and Resources for Performance

1. A Quantitative Paradigm for the Study of Communicative Competence / Gillian Sankoff 18

2. Language Identity of the Colombian Vaupes Indians / Jean Jackson 50

3. 'Our Ancestors Spoke in Pairs': Rotinese Views of Language, Dialect, and Code / James J. Fox 65

III. Community Ground Rules for Performance

4. Warm Springs 'Indian Time': How the Regulation of Participation Affects the Progress of Events / Susan U. Philips 92

5. Contrapuntal Conversations in an Antiguan Village / Karl Reisman 110

6. Norm-Makers, Norm-Breakers: Uses of Speech by Men and Women in a Malagasy Community / Elinor Keenan 125

7. Speaking in the Light: The Role of the Quaker Minister / Richard Bauman 144

IV. Speech Acts, Events, and Situations

8. Strategies of Status Manipulation in the Wolof Greeting / Judith T. Irvine 167

9. Rituals of Encounter among the Maori: Sociolinguistic Study of a Scene / Anne Salmond 192

10. Speaking of Speaking: Tenejapa Tzeltal Metalinguistics / Brian Stross 213

11. Black Talking on the Streets / Roger D. Abrahams 240

12. Namakke, Sunmakke, Kormakke: Three Types of Cuna Speech Event / Joel Sherzer 263

13. The Concept and Varieties of Narrative Performance in East European Jewish Culture / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 283

V. The Shaping of Artistic Structures in Performance

14. Correlates of Cree Narrative Performance / Regna Darnell 315

15. An Analysis of the Course of a Joke's Telling in Conversation / Harvey Sacks 337

16. When Words Become Deeds: An Analysis of Three Iroquois Longhouse Speech Events / Michael K. Foster 354

17. The Ethnographic Context of Some Traditional Mayan Speech Genres / Victoria R. Bricker 368

18. To Speak with a Heated Heart: Chamula Canons of Style and Good Performance / Gary H. Gossen 389

VI. Toward an Ethnology of Speaking

19. Data and Data Use in an Analysis of Communicative Events / Allen D. Grimshaw 419

20. The Ethnography of Writing / Keith H. Basso 425

21. Ways of Speaking / Dell Hymes 433.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0521370639

0521379334

OCLC:

18560813