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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bauman, Richard, 1940-

Sherzer, Joel.

Cambridge University Press

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.

Anthropological linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 501 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Contents:

Part I. Preface and introduction. Preface ; Introduction

Part II. Communities and resources for performance. Introduction ; A quantitative paradigm for the study of communicative competence / Gillian Sankoff ; Language identity of the Columbian Vaupés Indians / Jean Jackson ; "Our ancestors spoke in pairs": Rotinese views of language, dialect, and code / James J. Fox

Part III. Community ground rules for performance. Introduction ; Warm springs "Indian time": how the regulation of participation affects the progress 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

Part IV. Speech acts, events, and situations. Introduction ; 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, Kormakki: three types of Cuna speech event / Joel Sherzer ; 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 ; 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 ; The 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

Part VI. Toward an ethnology of speaking. Introduction ; Data and data use in an analysis of communicative events / Allen D. Grimshaw ; The ethnography of writing / Keith H. Basso ; Ways of speaking / Dell Hymes.

Notes:

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

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780511611810 (electronic bk.)

0511611811 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

99992749344

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