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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bauman, Richard, 1940-

Sherzer, Joel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and culture.

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

vii, 501 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1974.

Contents:

Quantitative paradigm for the study of communicative competence / Gillian Sankoff

Language identity of the Colombian Vaupés Indians / Jean Jackson

"Our ancestors spoke in pairs": Rotinese views of language, dialect, and code / James J. Fox

Warm Springs "Indian time": how the regulation of participation affects the progression of events / Susan U. Philips

Contrapuntal conversations in an Antiguan village / Karl Reisman

Norm-makers, norm-breakers: uses of speech by men and women in a Malagasy community / Elinor Keenan

Speaking in the light: the role of the Quaker minister / Richard Bauman

Strategies of status manipulation in the Wolof greeting / Judith T. Irvine

Rituals of encounter among the Maori: sociolinguistic study of a scene / Anne Salmond

Speaking of speaking: Tenejapa Tzeltal metalinguistics / Brian Stross

Black talking on the streets / Roger D. Abrahams

Namakke, Sunmakke, Kormakke: three types of Cuna speech event / Joel Sherzer

Concept and varieties of narrative performance in East European Jewish culture / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

Correlates of Cree narrative performance / Regna Darnell

An analysis of the course of a joke's telling in conversation / Harvey Sacks

When words become deeds: an analysis of three Iroquois longhouse speech events / Michael K. Foster

Ethnographic context of some traditional Mayan speech genres / Victoria R. Bricker

To speak with a heated heart: Chamula canons of style and good performance / Gary H. Gossen

Data and data use in an analysis of communicative events / Allen D. Grimshaw

Ethnography of writing / Keith H. Basso

Ways of speaking / Dell Hymes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-496) and index.

ISBN:

052120495X

9780521204958

0521098890

9780521098892

OCLC:

1311238